What Is a Musical Now? The Polyphone Festival Played Some Fresh Answers
Theatremakers joined students at the University of the Arts for theatricalized concert versions of sounded the limits of the musical theatre form.
Theatremakers joined students at the University of the Arts for theatricalized concert versions of sounded the limits of the musical theatre form.
Next season at the Boston theatre will include new works by Winnie Holzman, Jeffrey Hatcher, Gina Gionfriddo and Craig Lucas. Oh, and Nick Offerman.
Somehow a Russian doctor who died in 1904 was able to pre-diagnose our 21st-century ways of not connecting, of spending our lives alone together.
The city's notorious child murders of 1979 are the backdrop of Janine Nabers's 'Serial Black Face,' and Steve Yockey will get two world premieres.
Critics shower awards on Northern California theatre, with 64 recipients across 22 categories.
A mix of new work and local premieres, including plays by Lucy Kirkwood and Stephen Adley Guirgis, are on tap, along with a new second-stage series.
Serge Seiden will leave Studio Theatre to work on other projects in the D.C. area.
The D.C.-area theatre's new season includes new musicals from Adam Gwon and Brian Feinstein, plus area premieres from Annie Baker and Bathsheba Doran.
Her renegade first season at the earthquake-ravaged A.C.T. sparked outrage"and a surprise denouement.
It's a week of extremes, full of bloody conflicts and hard lessons, though some are leavened by laughter.
When San Francisco's venerable but ailing flagship theatre hired a 32-year-old neophyte to lead it, they didn't know what they were in for. Neither did she.
The director and performance artist brings a mix of downtown and uptown credentials to the job of running the small but ambitious Off-Broadway theatre.
The historian/playwright returns to Louisville with 'The Glory of the World,' a raucous tribute to the Trappist monk on what would be his 100th birthday.
With its summer season just a few months away, a new leader joins the team at the Illinois theatre.
The longtime Ringling Bros. performer will take give counsel on Circus Center's programming and productions.
The troupe's 19th season also includes the Chicago premiere of 'American Idiot' and the return of 'ADDING MACHINE: A Musical.'
Fernanda Coppel, Halley Feiffer and Benjamin Scheuer will receive the inaugural commissions.
The New York City theatre celebrates its 30th season with a mix of new plays and musicals, including two world premieres.
This summer, 14 projects---from a Fidel Castro musical to a movement-based Murakami adaptation---will be developed in the theatre's new-works program.
Also on tap are new works by A.R. Gurney and Naomi Wallace, a Martha Clarke collaboration with Alfred Uhry, and a return of the popular n'Old Hats.'
An Australian expat finds a way to write about her sense of dislocation via a tunnel to Asia and a killer crocodile.
New plays by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jennifer Haley and Rajiv Joseph, plus a return of the Neo-Futurists, are also on tap for the D.C. theatre.
At the Bushwick Starr, Superhero Clubhouse crafts eco-theatre edutainment with Brooklyn students, fighting climate change one play at a time.
Move over, Wednesdays"New Georges is making a case for TGIF. And why not?
The tenor, who will play the role in Lyric Opera of Chicago's 'Carousel,' also talks about vocal health, career advice and why it's best not to ask him to dance.