Billy McEntee
Billy McEntee is a freelance writer and arts journalist. He’s the Theater Editor of The Brooklyn Rail, instructs with The School of The New York Times and helps promote shows with shorter runs through Staff Picks (@paffsticks).
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The Bushwick Starr: A New Theatre Grows in Brooklyn
The Bushwick Starr cofounders Sue Kessler and Noel Allain outside their new theatre. Photo courtesy of the theatre.
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They Started as Broadway Actors, Now They’re Directing
The company of Empire: The Musical, one of three new shows being helmed by Broadway performers-turned directors. Photo by Matthew Murphy.
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Out of the Box and Into a Home
Out of the Box Theatrics and ChaShaMa take over the New Ohio Theatre with a mission of diversity and accessibility
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She Swore Off Adapting Novels, Then She Read ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’
Why Rona Munro agreed to turn Elizabeth Strout’s book into a stage play starring Laura Linney
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Following in His Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cousin’s Footsteps
How emerging playwright Alex Riad is using his hometown as fodder for a theatrical trilogy
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The Most Important New York Playwright You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
A Mac Wellman festival at The Flea hopes to earn the venerable dramatist new fans
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She’s the Secret Ingredient in Three Hit Plays
How dramaturg Sarah Lunnie helped birth What the Constitution Means to Me , Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie and Hillary and Clinton
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How Do You Write a Comedy About Climate Change?
Madeleine George’s Hurricane Diane inspires soul searching in between laughs
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He’s Still in School and Already Making an Auspicious Dual Debut
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