Raven Snook

Why Richard Maxwell refuses to give audiences all — or any — answers

A biting comedy about a pretentious poet with a particular disdain for theatre (played with palpable venom by Ron Rifkin) who enters and wins a playwriting contest on a bet, Wrong Mountain examined the never-ending struggle between art and entertainment. Without giving any easy answers (or heck, any answers at all), the play explored how the two are defined in the eye of the beholder, and how neit

How Chris Myers’ latest gig merged his professional, political and personal life

How the Internet connected two artists for a one-of-a-kind musical

Why Geneva Carr devoted the last four years of her life to Hand to God

How the director changed her vision of Finding Neverland — When Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus signed on to the mega-musicalization of the movie Finding Neverland, currently playing at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, she knew one of the biggest challenges would be figuring out how to conjure the title destination. A magical place invented by Peter […]

In real life and in their work, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Evan Cabnet explore the boundaries of collaboration — It’s challenging to write about the Vineyard Theatre’s new pitch-black comedy Gloria without giving too much away. Like all of rising playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ shows — including Appropriate and An Octoroon, which together earned him the 2014 […]

Sixteen performers, all over the age of 55, share the songs and stories of their generation

Shakespearean actor Simon Callow steps into high heels for the latest Brits Off Broadway fest