Victoria Lynne Barclay started to write plays when she lost her accent. “Believe it or not,” she told me one afternoon in late May, “my family don’t think I sound Scottish anymore.” Camping starts ...

For both those from the island and in the diaspora, the gathering affirmed and clarified the bridge-building power of theatre and its makers. I remember sitting in my childhood bedroom, spinning in a ...

The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action. John Adams once predicted ...

We’ve all heard it: Those who can do, do. Those who can’t, teach. I am infuriated just writing those words. Yet, like a true self-sabotager, I worry. Is that me? I want to make sure that I continue to ...

A radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 a.m. mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the “Holy Spirit” through the lens of the Divine Feminine. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving ...

This article is adapted from Survivors of a Future That Never Happened: A Cultural Review, 1974-1994 (Montreal Publishing), available on Bookshop.org and Amazon.com. “The Theatre of Images”—a term ...

Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...

“I love watching people play music,” the director Rachel Chavkin wrote me in an email this week. That makes two of us. Moreno’s casting definitely makes musical sense: Blues, jazz, soul, and old-time ...

As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...

First it was cancelled, then it wasn’t, then the students couldn’t talk about it. Now that the show actually went on, it’s worth asking: Were this school district’s precautions about safety or ...

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 ...

*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...