theatre
A Season of Unease at the Edinburgh Festival
[ad_1] For a few weeks each August, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe fill every theatre, student center, lecture hall, and pub basement in the Scottish capital...
Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
[ad_1] In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were rolling in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace...
“Prince Faggot” Sends Up Kink and Country
[ad_1] On a blue-lit stage, a naked man—blindfolded, trussed, and gagged—hangs like a deer from a pole. Pale and gleaming, he looks like a painting of St. Sebastian, rapturous in...
Han Ong on Partisan Passions and Life Affirmation in the Theatre
[ad_1] Your story “Happy Days” revolves around an unorthodox staging of Samuel Beckett’s play “Happy Days,” by an Off Off Broadway theatre company, in the East Village. As the story...
When a Writer Takes to the Stage
[ad_1] Writers who contemplate going onstage tend to fall into two camps: those who know better and those who should but don’t. Of the second kind, The New Yorker has,...
Composer Stephen Schwartz on ASCAP’s Musical Theatre Fest, Shares Update on ‘Wicked: For Good’
[ad_1] Stephen Schwartz is back hosting the ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Fest. The event will be held over two days from May 5-6 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the...
The Show Can’t Go On
[ad_1] Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts. [ad_2] Source link
London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory
[ad_1] Long before Richard II ran afoul of mutinous nobles, and almost two centuries before Shakespeare wrote Richard’s portrait in majestic verse, the King took refuge in the Tower. Near...
Sheryl Lee Ralph on Almost Starring in ‘Ghosts’ Instead of ‘Abbott Elementary’ and the Racism She Faced in Her Theatre Career
[ad_1] There are two ways to earn your spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, according to Sheryl Lee Ralph. “If I have the honor of a star, anybody can...
The Play Where Everyone Keeps Fainting
[ad_1] The last time Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy “Titus Andronicus” was staged at the Globe Theatre, in London, in 2014, members of the audience regularly fainted. Each performance, the crew kept...
Jeremy O. Harris, Raphael Picciarelli on Reinventing the Williamstown Theatre Festival With a Bold 2025 Season
[ad_1] When Jeremy O. Harris was tapped to help reinvigorate the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he didn’t just think about traditional showcases for plays and musicals. “The American festivals that work...
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