In a change addressing significant financial challenges for the small nonprofit, DCT will scale back productions and pause its education program. “Although our performances are well-attended and our ...

Taylor Mac, whose new play ‘Prosperous Fools’ is loosely inspired by ‘Le Bourgeois gentilhomme,’ and Jeffrey Hatcher, who has a new adaptation of ‘The Imaginary Invalid,’ talk satire, philanthropy, ...

A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her work. A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by ...

A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.

Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...

Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals. Patten has said that she decided to continue to play Jo to honor all the queer people who ...

His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, ‘Dark Disabled Stories,’ is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disabled people ...

Since the start of the regional theatre movement, most nonprofit professional theatres in the United States of America have been led by white male artistic directors. Then, about a decade ago, ...

My first full-length play to be produced in New York City was called A Shylock. It was about Shakespeare, and it was about antisemitism. The lead, a character named Jack Levy, was played by a talented ...

2 trans actors discuss what they’ve found in the role of ‘Twelfth Night’s sad clown, in productions at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and the Old Globe. I spoke with these two actors about the bond ...

The 3 writers in Second Stage’s Judith Champion Reading Series—Sarah Mantell, D.A. Mindell, and Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin—reflect on their plays and their process. Mindell’s On the Evolutionary Function ...

Snakes on the sidewalk. No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson movie. The snakes are real, and are just one of the seemingly endless challenges facing summer theatre companies and festivals as they ...