Victoria Lynne Barclay started to write plays when she lost her accent. “Believe it or not,” she told me one afternoon in late May, “my family don’t think I sound Scottish anymore.” Camping starts ...
For two nights (July 7-8), the immersive theatrical experience Building promises to transform Pioneer Works, an art-and-science nonprofit in Red Hook, Brooklyn, into “an exploratory portrait of 1970s ...
The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action. John Adams once predicted ...
A radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 a.m. mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the “Holy Spirit” through the lens of the Divine Feminine. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving ...
For both those from the island and in the diaspora, the gathering affirmed and clarified the bridge-building power of theatre and its makers. I remember sitting in my childhood bedroom, spinning in a ...
We’ve all heard it: Those who can do, do. Those who can’t, teach. I am infuriated just writing those words. Yet, like a true self-sabotager, I worry. Is that me? I want to make sure that I continue to ...
A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.
Conversations with Liza Jessie Peterson and Christina Gelsone about 2 very different shows, one ending a quarter-century run, the other quietly launching a tour. As the U.S. approaches its 250th ...
The groundbreaking 1990s girl group TLC asked writer-director Kwame Kwei-Armah to write their musical—several times. First approached while he was running London’s Young Vic Theatre, Kwei-Armah was ...
He was Pig Iron Theatre’s heavy-light, goofy-serious, puckish-peaceful poet, and as Martha Graham Cracker, he somehow shone even brighter. Dito van Reigersberg, founding member of Philadelphia’s Pig ...
A performer said this at the end of a rehearsal I attended as part of an international delegation hosted by the Ukrainian Institute of Kyiv at the city’s annual GRA Theatre Festival in November 2025.
With its new Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center, Hudson Valley Shakespeare has a stunning new home that aims to hold in balance permanence, performance, and the natural world. A timid Hudson River wades ...