Playwrights Swap Garret for the Outdoors, Muse in Tow
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There is a growing network of summer retreats where writers and others who work in the theater get away from the urban grind and try to reconnect with their muses.
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Director Gary Griffin, a fixture in the Chicago theatre community who has changed time zones occasionally to direct in New York City and London, will stage Goodspeed Musicals' summer revival of Michel Legrand ...
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The travails of the writers who traveled from New York to Hollywood in 2004 to hawk their adaptation of âParadise Lost.â
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âMy First Timeâ is a new Off Broadway play in which four actors recount stories about peopleâs first sexual experiences.
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Though no one talks about them much, Ernest Hemingway wrote two plays.
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Whether this season's meager collection of new plays is simply a quirk of scheduling or the beginning of a larger trend is uncertain.
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Keira Naughton settles into the role of a transient New Yorker in the play âHunting and Gathering.â
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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In a season plump with notable revivals of landmark plays, including Ibsenâs âGhostsâ and Beckettâs âHappy Days,â a rapturous interpretation of Anton Chekhovâs âSeagullâ flies higher than any of them.
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Robert De Niro has turned theater producer for the inaugural Tribeca Theater Festival to support a revival of New York's downtown theater scene, which has leaked audiences and money since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The result: an entertaining slate called "The Downtown Plays," nine pieces by nine of America's cleverest playwrights, all of whom celebrate life below 14th Street.
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âTerminus,â Mark OâRoweâs drama of interlocking monologues, adds an unusual twist to the playwrightâs already distinctive style: rhyme.
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Charles Nicholl's book opens a window onto Jacobean London and the swirl of sights and sensations that surrounded William Shakespeare and inevitably found their way into his plays.
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A canceled play, a damaged theater, a playwright in hiding.
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The character of Alma Winemiller has resurfaced with a new authoritative calm in the Hartford StageÂs gentle, insightful revival of Tennessee WilliamsÂs ÂSummer and Smoke.Â
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The director Deborah Warner and her longtime collaborator, the actress Fiona Shaw, are bringing a production of Samuel Beckettâs âHappy Daysâ to New York.
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The Moth storytelling tour helps erase the line between writers and their readers.
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Arts & entertainment: Jason Cowley traces the story of the mental and spiritual decline of a gifted writer and close friend