We’ve all heard it: Those who can do, do. Those who can’t, teach. I am infuriated just writing those words. Yet, like a true self-sabotager, I worry. Is that me? I want to make sure that I continue to ...

BERKSHIRES, MASS.: Salt Tree Art will host the inaugural Berkshires NEW Theater Festival (the Berkshires NEWT) on Saturday, July 4 for a day of original performance in the Berkshires. Led by artistic ...

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.

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 ...

Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...

To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...

In its ’80s IP retro rush, is Broadway’s 2025-26 season simply offering brand-name escapism—or finding a reflection of, and a response to, our current age of anxiety? The 1980s promised us two ...

This piece is one in a series on disability and theatre. Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character.

Psychological trauma is the subject of most plays about service members. Does this represent most veterans’ reality, or does it further complicate their reentry? “Events are considered morally ...

David Byrne’s Broadway musical is a breakthrough for Filipino American performers, but at what cost to the historical truths it dances around? In November 2014, I traveled to the city of Tacloban on ...

This article is adapted from Survivors of a Future That Never Happened: A Cultural Review, 1974-1994 (Montreal Publishing), available on Bookshop.org and Amazon.com. “The Theatre of Images”—a term ...

A few hours after writer and performer Cole Escola offered this advice to LGBTQ+ viewers in a Logo TV interview, they made history as the first openly nonbinary actor to win a Tony Award for ...