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Billed as “a theatrical exercise in well-being,” the show builds on the work of the “positive psychology movement”—i.e., folks who have been studying happiness since the late 1990s. After decades of ...
As tireless as he was eccentric, this great designer pushed himself and his colleagues to dazzling heights, and his work was never done.
The Contemporary American Theater Festival is now the only U.S. gathering of its kind that fully stages all its offerings—and that matters more now.
6 writers from abroad who make theatre in the U.S. reflect on their craft and careers in a cultural climate that feels freshly fraught and urgent.
The Process Itself Can Be the Revolution After spending a week studying Tectonic Theater Project’s Moment Work, a theatre teacher emerges with new tools to empower young storytellers.
A hybrid between the radio drama of yesteryear and the audiobook of today, this offering will transport listening audiences to a time when the whole family would gather around the radio to experience ...
While some companies can quickly plug the holes in their budgets for now, the ripple effects of across-the-board cutbacks to federal arts funding may be long-lasting and felt by the most vulnerable.
Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes.
In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she ...
As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet.
A stagehands' walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide.
The world outside can't help but enter the classroom, which offers both a challenge and an opportunity to make theatre training more meaningful.