Category Archives: In the News
How Megan Terry and Jo Ann Schmidman Made Magic in Omaha
How two veterans of New York’s 1960s-’70s avant-garde theatre made edgy, alternative theatre in a conservative state, and what enduring lessons their example may hold out for others.
Read More...Jonathan Norton: A Sense of Place
The marvelously talented Dallas playwright Jonathan Norton, whose play penny candy has just been published, talks about his city, his writing, and the busy intersection of the two in the latest issue of American Theatre.
Read More...Tony Kusher, Oracle of the Upper West Side
When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America’s most important living playwright, to take on WEST SIDE STORY, he thought, “He’s lost his mind.” But he dared.
Read More...Micki Grant: “I Wanted to Open Eyes”
The composer and lyricist, who died at 92, was a trailblazer in virtually every field she touched.
Theater in Manhattan was bristling with Black voices in the early 1970s, but these tended to be heard in smaller spaces like the New Federal Theater, the Negro Ensemble Company and the Urban Arts Corps. Micki Grant’s “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” spent time in such theaters before winding its way to Broadway in 1972, making it the first time a woman had written the book, music and lyrics to a Broadway musical.
The result — four Tony Award nominations, a run of…
Kermit Frazier’s KERNEL OF SANITY
“With its themes of white privilege and black rage, Kermit Frazier’s KERNEL OF SANITY resonates powerfully today. That’s why Paula Vogel is giving it a boost.”
A 1978 Play Plucked From the Slush Pile Gets a Timely New Reading – The New York Times
Naomi Wallace’s Theatre Of The Plague: More Riveting And Relevant Than Ever
Naomi Wallace’s Theatre Of The Plague: More Riveting And Relevant Than Ever by Giovanni Rodriguez
Exactly five weeks ago and one day, I posted the following on Facebook: “Now would be a good time to restage ONE FLEA SPARE.” I did this with three objectives in mind. First, I wanted to see what some of my theater friends thought about the story, which I believe is more relevant today than ever. The award-winning 1995 play was set in 1665, the first year of the great plague of London, and told the story of four people quarantined together for a month…
This Thing of Darkness: Caliban and the Creature from Frankenstein – Shakespeare & Beyond
With Halloween on its way, Austin Tichenor, author of the play FRANKENSTEIN, explores parallels between Caliban from The Tempest and the Creature from Shelley’s Frankenstein. for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Read More...An Avant-Garde Theater Artist Gets Her Due
María Irene Fornés is being celebrated at MoMA and the Public Theater. Her colleagues and students reflect on her enduring legacy.
Read More...Broadway Review: An ANGELS IN AMERICA That Soars on the Breath of Life
Marianne Elliott’s London-born production of Tony Kushner’s masterwork is blazingly reimagined with a cast including Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield.
Source: New York Times Review: An “Angels in America” That Soars on the Breath of Life