Theater

Order vs. Randomness: What Math Can Teach Us About the Stage

Stephen Abbott Helps Make Sense of the Mathematical Underpinnings of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt

 
By Stephen Abbott  April 7, 2023
Theater

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

By Jack O'Brien  November 16, 2022
Theater

On Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

By David Damrosch  November 17, 2021
Theater

Oedipus at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter: How Sophocles Speaks to Contemporary Trauma

By Bryan Doerries  October 18, 2021
Theater

On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre

By Casey Kayser  September 27, 2021
Theater

Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

By James Lapine  August 16, 2021
Theater

On the Erudite Chaos of Tom Stoppard’s Most Complex Play

By Hermione Lee  February 24, 2021
History

On the Our Town Spin-Off That Served as WWII Spirit Building

By Howard Sherman  February 17, 2021
Theater

The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
Theater

The Story Behind One of Hadestown’s Most Beloved Songs

By Anaïs Mitchell  October 28, 2020
Theater

Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
Theater

Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

By Dan O'Brien  September 18, 2020
Theater

My Mother and ‘Culture’:
A Love Story

By David Adjmi  July 28, 2020
Theater

The Newly Resonant Lessons of an Unlikely Broadway Musical

By Anthony Rudel  July 27, 2020
Theater

On the 19th-Century Actress Who Transformed Gender Dynamics in American Theater

By Tana Wojczuk  July 23, 2020
Theater

Writerly Lessons From an Early ’90s Improv Class

By Joanna Hershon  April 27, 2020
Theater

Gary Janetti on Patti LuPone

By Gary Janetti  October 19, 2019
Theater

Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

By Cornel West  October 1, 2019