At the 29th Philadelphia Fringe Festival, now running through Sept. 28, the city itself is both audience and performer. Programming director Mikaela Boone describes the festival’s mandate as creating ...

Our annual Top 10/Top 20 lists offer invaluable snapshots of the American theatre’s evolving tastes, but programming choices aren’t made in a vacuum, of course. Which shows get lots of productions has ...

As we look forward to this year’s theatre season across the U.S., our Fall issue also takes stock of lessons from history. I can still recall the first few times my kids started to begin sentences ...

A new nationwide movement aims to connect artists in opposition to the Trump administration’s cultural policies and to reclaim the nation’s institutions and narratives. This nationwide network ...

Trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming artists weren’t welcome at the stage door. They found their own way in—and they’re holding the door open for others. Days in the lives of theatre folks ...

In the first edition of our new column: a dive into some data about the coming theatre season across the U.S. and in NYC. Our annual fall season preview listings are one place we can find out. As ...

This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers. But, after seeing Oluo ...

This piece was originally written for and posted on BroadwayWorld. It is republished here with permission. Theatremakers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of ...

Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes. In the singing land that is the musical theatre, ...

A defrocked minister encounters inner and outer disturbances over the course of one turbulent night at the Costa Verde hotel in this rarely staged Tennessee Williams play that illuminates how much we ...

In November 2022, Lisa Smith was weighing whether to continue stage managing or to scale up her part-time job at a gardening center into a full-time gig. She’d been stage managing in the Twin Cities ...

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 ...