Ramin Karimloo: The Body That Jean Valjean Made
Time to hit the gym! The Tony-nominated matinee idol works up a sweat to show Broadway Style Guide how Les Misérables transformed his attitude toward fitness, his acting technique, and …
Time to hit the gym! The Tony-nominated matinee idol works up a sweat to show Broadway Style Guide how Les Misérables transformed his attitude toward fitness, his acting technique, and …
Magic invades the everyday in Little Children Dream of God — Some demons are imaginary and some of them are real, and during a climactic moment in Little Children Dream of God, they al…
Got a theatre fanatic in the family? Or a friend looking for a good read? Theatre books make perfect stocking stuffers, providing readers a lasting memento of an inherently ephemeral art for…
In Walter Mosley’s play Lift, drama unfolds in the tiniest space — Two days into rehearsals for Lift at 59E59, director John Marshall III got stuck in an elevator. Most people en…
Welcome to Fanmail, our tributes to theatre artists we admire " As a small white boy from Honolulu, I always had difficulty explaining my obsession with The Color Purple. I suppose it starte…
Behind the dazzling effects of Fuerza Bruta Wayra — For performance art junkies and thrill-seekers alike, Fuerza Bruta WAYRA offers a breathtaking array of multi-sensory spectacles not…
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages contributor Jack Smart geeks out (via Google doc) with Nate Silver, Managing Director…
Inside the new play from Pulitzer winner Ayad Akhtar — Ayad Akhtar got the idea for his new play in the back of a taxi cab. An advertisement for Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter’s music…
20 years later, Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire seems eerily prescient about America — When Jon Robin Baitz sat down in 1991 to write a play about the demise of books and…
The new musical A Second Chance carefully balances fact and fiction — Faced with the task of turning autobiography into theatre, a director constantly walks a tightrope. Lean too far t…
In Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, 15 actors star in 57 shorts — The lights rise on a wall of grass and two suspended actors, arms resting behind their heads as if they…