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 ...

The star of this season’s shipwrecked Avett Brothers musical reflects on the show’s brief, brilliant voyage—and how its dark depths rescued his first love. In 2016 I was toast. My last two outings on ...

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, ...

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. Sarah Clare Corporandy’s chest clenched with anxiety as the first lockdown orders were issued ...

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...

This month we speak to the playwright and director of a new play at the Huntington, and check in with NY Times critic at large Maya Phillips. You can download the ...

The world outside can’t help but enter the classroom, which offers both a challenge and an opportunity to make theatre training more meaningful. Last fall I co-wrote an article for HowlRound Theatre ...

An interview with the playwright of ‘Eureka Day’ about creating the play in a pre-Covid world and seeing the show anew through a changed society. Jonathan Spector’s play Eureka Day follows several ...

Morgan Jenness, a force of nature who nurtured and inspired countless theatremakers as a dramaturg, agent, and activist, died on Nov. 12 at the age of 72. Taylor Mac’s full memorial tribute is here; ...

In November 2022, Lisa Smith was weighing whether to continue stage managing or to scale up her part-time job at a gardening center into a full-time gig. She’d been stage managing in the Twin Cities ...

The story of a square pumpkin living in a round pumpkin patch on Holiday Hill Farm. When a storm threatens the farm, it’s up to Spookley and his unusual shape to save the day. Based on the popular ...