MARK BLANKENSHIP

The secret structure of The Flick

The emotional logic of Rady & Bloom’s latest play — Given what we’ve learned about the characters in The Upper Room, it’s incredibly moving when one of them wears a walrus mask. It’s equally powerful when two of them stand on ladders and toss tiny pieces of tissue paper in the air, which flutter to […]

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How Robert Creighton brings the film legend to the stage

The Other Thing is never the play you expect — It seems so innocent at first. Just three folks outside a barn in rural Virginia. Over in the folding chairs, Kim, a reporter, interviews Carl about his work as a professional ghost hunter, and in the background, Carl’s son Brady sets up equipment to test […]

Meet Urban Stages, where every culture’s story gets told. This video features Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins, Tony Award nominee Trazana Beverley, Urban Stages’ Founding Artistic Director Frances Hill, and Urban Stages staff members Peter Napolitano, Rachel Sullivan, and Antoinette Mullins.

The Irish Rep’s latest play creates the rough energy of 1980s Belfast — If you know the folk song “I’ll Tell Me Ma,” which is also called “The Belle of Belfast City,” then it might conjure images of a joyous Irish community. Or it might remind you of that one Chieftains album everyone had in […]

Meet NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company), which expands our understanding of the Asian-American story. This video features NAATCO founder Mia Katigbak, actors Cindy Cheung and Jennifer Ikeda, and playwrights Lloyd Suh and Jorge Ignacio Cortinas.

Behind the most unusual characters in Broadway’s The Visit