The first thing we did was pour a libation, but instead of water or rum, we poured names. It was morning in San Juan. I had come to TCG’s National Conference to lead a practice lab called “Writing as ...
For our guest columnist’s final column (for now), she reconnects with past students and asks teachers how they’re educating a new generation. One of the most rewarding parts of my career as a high ...
One warm afternoon in early June, the churchgoers at Montreal’s Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (a room built for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the 19th century) all turned in unison, as if ...
A human resources tangle among tech workers is at the heart of Geetha Reddy’s new comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Geetha Reddy’s new play began with a problematic cancellation. If that sounds ...
In 2017, MILCK (Connie K. Lim) and AG (Adrianne Gonzalez)’s song “Quiet,” about MILCK’s journey of surviving domestic violence, became a protest anthem at the D.C. Women’s March. Inspired by that ...
In November 1985, American Theatre magazine’s second year of existence, Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice appeared in its pages. It was the first full play text the magazine had published. Below is a ...
An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...
Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes. In the singing land that is the musical theatre, ...
The 95-year-old actor reflects on her rich and rewarding stage career, and the life it drew from and made for her. For more than 70 years, Lois Smith has been delivering performances that have the ...
A lively and perceptive watcher and thinker, she helped generations of artists and critics view theatre as a kind of space and time travel. The best theatre critic in the 2,500-year history of the ...
2 playwrights talk to theatremakers in the West Bank and Gaza, who are continuing their resistance to occupation with their art and their witness. “I do not see our work as a luxury but as an act of ...
The Dallas-based playwright and theatre leader has an eye and ear for detail, including in his new play about Malcolm X and Redd Foxx. This is my first time sitting down with the now-legendary local ...