"In 1960 Peter Hall created a theatrical revolution. He turned a summer Shakespeare festival in Stratford-on-Avon into a year-round enterprise based on a permanent ensemble, a second home in…
I had a mixed reaction to the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Dream," a 30-minute online experiment inspired by the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which is being presented l…
The early weeks of spring 2020 and Broadway's pandemic shutdown already seemed like a distant, bygone era by summertime. Initial hopes for a two- or three-week hiatus had morphed into talk o…
Today, Williamstown Theatre Festival announced additional participants for the 2021 WTF Gala taking place virtually on Wednesday, April 7. Joining the festivities will be Olivier Award…
Grab yourself a special treat because it's the season finale of Second Act Snacks: Season One! They're going out with a bang by looking for Bobby's birthday cake from COMPANY! Take a deep br…
Before Monday morning, the late actor Chadwick Boseman had somehow never been nominated for an Academy Award, despite his astonishing performances as Jackie Robinson in 2013's "42" and as Ja…
(Greg Evans's article appeared on Deadline, 3/12; via Pam Green.) To hear the cast of Broadway's Company tell it, the industry's shutdown one year ago today was perhaps more shockin…
(Afrifa Akbar's article appeared in the Guardian, 3/15; Photo: Maria Aberg in the south of Sweden where she grew up. Photograph: Hanna-Katrina JÄ™drosz.) The acclaimed Swedish director's …
The acclaimed Swedish director's Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers
Maria Aberg was having one of the busiest times of her 20-year th…
Directed by D.C. choreographer Emily Oleson, this work features Urban Artistry with Good Foot Dance Company and Baakari Wilder. The piece investigates the origins behind the term "buck dance…
This is the 35th year the "Mock Trial" has been presented and, like last year, it is virtual. In keeping with the Shakespeare Theatre Company and the STC's Bard Association, it is a delig…
To hear the cast of Broadway's Company tell it, the industry's shutdown one year ago today was perhaps more shocking than surprising, arriving swiftly but maybe not swiftly enough. For at le…
Directed by D.C. choreographer Emily Oleson, this work features Urban Artistry with Good Foot Dance Company and Baakari Wilder. The piece investigates the origins behind the term "buck dance…
The director of a play in tech rehearsal says of the theatre building, abandoned a year ago as the pandemic swept the world, "I walked in, it was very quiet and I found myself touching every…
