Following is an excerpt from the program notes for Wonder, a new musical by Sarah Ruhl, Chad King, and Ian Axel adapted from R.J. Palacio’s popular book, now running at American Repertory Theater in ...
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...
The gathering’s eighth edition was grounded in narratives of faith, myth, and spirituality that define the complexities of the Latinx experience, for better or worse. “If I were to compare us to ...
A new musical based on Thornton Wilder’s 1942 epic ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ aims to bring the original’s absurdities closer to home. Indeed, The Skin of Our Teeth is difficult to crack in any form. Its ...
A former copywriter for the D.C. organization reflects on the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has always been a part ...
This list was culled from 1,446 productions at 293 TCG member theatres, plus 156 productions at non-member and commercial theatres. As always, we did not tally productions authored by Shakespeare, of ...
This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers. But, after seeing Oluo ...
An Asian American theatremaker reflects on the intent and impact of Broadway’s ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ and the precedent its latest casting decision may set. AAPAC noted MHE’s South Korea setting, and ...
This piece was originally written for and posted on BroadwayWorld. It is republished here with permission. Theatremakers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of ...
Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes. In the singing land that is the musical theatre, ...
‘John Proctor is the Villain,’ now on Broadway, is just one in a spate of recent plays that offer feminist correctives to ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’ They are among the most famous words ...
One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...