Plus: Richard Thomas revives Hal Holbrook’s ‘Mark Twain Tonight,’ and a listing of world premieres across the U.S. “Brother tryna challenge my somebodiness,” is what she recalls a man saying to a ...
As a special offering in our Offscript feed, here’s a monologue from playwright Darnell Lamont Walker about the legendary Harlem crime boss, performed by Keith Randolph Smith. American Theatre is ...
Bernarda’s harsh rule over her daughters reveals secrets and forbidden desires, leading to tragic consequences. A powerful story of control and passion. Also available on demand. Performed in Spanish ...
Avery Willis Hoffman’s theatre career took a turn at the age of 12. Raised in Princeton, New Jersey, where her mother was an artist and father taught at Princeton University, Hoffman grew up ...
The present is never alone. Take comfort: There is future, and there is past. We walk, hand in hand, with ghosts of world stages: all the players who have exited, shadows of violence, sets in ruins.
Mother Nature has a few things she’d like to discuss. In this genre-smashing rock cabaret, she’s stepping onto the stage for a long-overdue heart-to-heart with humanity, laying bare the chaos we’ve ...
For the first time in forever, experience the magic of Disney’s Frozen at the Norshor Theatre. Full of humor, thrilling surprises, and a stunning musical score, this awe-inspiring production is a ...
Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck’s new musical at La Jolla Playhouse, based on the hit film, eyes the absurdities of the 1980s work culture—and the inequalities that are still with us. But Lauper isn’t ...
On this episode we speak to the writer and director of the new play ‘Mother of Exiles,’ and talk arts funding and community engagement with author Donna Walker-Kuhne. Reflections on craft, style, new ...
A new book explores what the life of a middling actor in the pre-Civil War era can teach us about his time—and about notions of individualism and merit that are still with us in American theatre ...
Corporate giving to theatres, long in decline due to shifts in attention toward social and political causes, has plummeted in recent years. Meanwhile the Trump administration and its enablers in ...