In the singing land that is the musical theatre, orchestrators are too unsung. These showbiz pros do much to give a musical a distinctive sound and feel, and yet—the Tony Award for orchestrators ...

Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre [1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...

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 ...

As the first year of TCG’s Funds for the Dolls draws to a close, we checked in with the grantees about what this support has meant—and what lies ahead. As one artistic director hands the reins to ...

Then there’s your membership program, which is quite different. Yes, and that has an online component. Membership is gated, so you have to qualify in some way. That’s a great way to reach out to many ...

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 ...

Satire is what closes on Saturday night, goes an old theatrical saw, and more recently we’ve heard from some quarters that theatregoers would rather not have politics mixed in with their entertainment ...

From the Editor Contributors From the Executive Office Front and Center: Alliance Theatre’s The Preacher’s Wife, discounts for young audiences, Black Out nights, Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of ...

ROB WEINERT-KENDT: You returned with a hybrid season in 2021-22, and then came back more or less fully in 2022-23. How did that season fare? Most folks I’ve spoken to about last season have said ...

Paula Vogel and Tina Landau have known one another since the 1990s, the same decade Vogel’s late brother Carl and a version of herself first appeared onstage in her play The Baltimore Waltz. Later ...

The piece riffs on the lost final play of Aeschylus’s Prometheus trilogy as a way of thinking about the relationship between technology and power. On one side of the stage, everything is made by ...

In 2016 I was toast. My last two outings on Broadway had taken a toll. Though I’d been given the bucket-list gift of appearing in two of my all-time favorite plays, the power games and rancorous ...