Call it a Friday night massacre: On the evening of May 2—just hours after the Trump administration released a proposed budget that would entirely eliminate the both the National Endowment for the Arts ...

The star of this season’s shipwrecked Avett Brothers musical reflects on the show’s brief, brilliant voyage—and how its dark depths rescued his first love. In 2016 I was toast. My last two outings on ...

‘John Proctor is the Villain,’ now on Broadway, is just one in a spate of recent plays that offer feminist correctives to ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’ They are among the most famous words ...

We stand at a critical crossroads in American history—a crossroads where democracy, creative expression, artistic freedom, and the very artists and arts institutions that uphold these ideals face ...

As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet. Sarah Clare Corporandy’s chest clenched with anxiety as the first lockdown orders were issued ...

One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...

A stagehands’ walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide. “We hoped we wouldn’t have to do this,” explained Rigdon, who serves on IATSE’s ...

The captivating Caribbean-set retelling of The Little Mermaid. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl, this poignant story follows Ti Moune, a peasant girl who rescues and ...

His new play ‘The Antiquities’ offers a kind of history of our post-human future, while a new collection of his plays suggests some common themes. One way to view Harrison’s newest play, The ...

An interview with the playwright of ‘Eureka Day’ about creating the play in a pre-Covid world and seeing the show anew through a changed society. Jonathan Spector’s play Eureka Day follows several ...

The downtown new-play mainstay will leave lower Manhattan to produce at the midtown theatre, in a limited but possibly transformative partnership. “It’s not the first time Soho Rep has encountered the ...

The beautiful thing about theatre is that there is never just one way to do it. Directors are able to take a piece and stage it in new and creative ways, while holding true to the story and the text.