17 stories by "Rebecca Mead"
The director's native city drives him crazy"and drives him to make loony, brilliant films.
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down failed as financiers"but they're making a killing by depicting the profession on HBO.
The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest"and the most tortured"of writers. And now he's starring in "The Importance of Being Earnest."
The survivors of the deadly 2017 London fire speak in a theatre piece opening at St. Ann's Warehouse.
Rebecca Mead writes about the conflicts and compromises of the musical adaptation of "Frozen" on Broadway, directed by Michael Grandage.
Rebecca Mead on Callisto, which functions like the "Shitty Media Men" list, without the vulnerability of a Google doc. Â
Rebecca Mead on a new Broadway production of Tony Kushner's play, in which puppeteers conjure a heavenly being from feathers and feelings.
Rebecca Mead talks with the distinguished British director, who is adapting the animated musical for Broadway.
The stage of the Delacorte Theatre, in Central Park, was glistening on Monday evening with what remained of an earlier rainfall, while the sky overhead was heavy and gray. These were not the…
Five actors gathered in a room on Lafayette Street, in downtown Manhattan, to start rehearsing a new work for the Public Theatre, "Joan of Arc: Into the Fire." Written by David Byrne, former…
In the immediate aftermath of the Presidential election, as it became necessary to process an appalling new reality"What does this mean for the undocumented? What does this mean for women? W…
When Gregory Doran, the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, first decided to direct Shakespeare's cycle of English-history plays, he met with Sir Ian McKellen and asked him i…
For close observers of the cultural phenomenon that is "Hamilton," a new milestone in the musical's unfolding journey was reached last week: the appearance of the understudy in the title rol…
When Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" opened on Broadway, in 1993, in a production directed by George C. Wolfe, the play ended with a winged angel crashing into a dy…
Hillary Clinton is, so far, the only declared Presidential candidate known to have seen "Hamilton": she attended a performance of the show at the Public Theatre, in March, to which she respo…
In April, 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a writer, composer, and performer, received a call from the White House. The new President and the First Lady were planning to host an evening of live per…
If you’re a British person of a certain age, you know Michael Pennington as a distinguished classical actor, belonging to the same generation as Sir Ian McKellen but lacking his blockb…
