Rob Weinert-Kendt

What Makes ‘Misery’ Seem Scary On Stage?

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New Hampshire Women and Arizona Wild Men

Two new Clubbed Thumb plays take their writers back home — Both Jaclyn Backhaus and Kate E. Ryan have written plays set in far-flung locales, from ancient Greece (Ryan’s Women of Trachis) to the inside of a whale (Backhaus’s Bull’s Hollow). Coincidentally, though, both of their new plays, premiering this month as part of Clubbed […]

Telling the Story of Black Broadway

Inside Broadway producer Stewart Lane’s major new book — It’s funny how some names stick: The Great White Way, for instance, became the moniker for New York’s theatre district because Broadway was the first major thoroughfare to get electric lighting, so that even at night, it was “lit up like daytime,” says Stewart F. Lane, […]

Would You Have an Affair for the Sake of Your Memoir?

Anna Camp plays an artist in crisis in Verité — “This play is definitely keeping me up at night,” says Anna Camp, the star of Verité, Nick Jones’s unsettling new comedy at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater. Specifically, she’s unsettled by the decisions her character makes about balancing her family life with her career as […]

His Rage Is My Rage Too

By ROB WEINERT-KENDT — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles It’s clearly been a very bad day. Amir (Hari Dhillon) doesn’t so much enter his dusk-lit apartment as storm it, quickly loosening his tight corporate-lawyer tie and pouring himself a stiff drink. His wife Emily (Gretchen […]

Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink” Finally Comes to New York

Tom Stoppard’s characters are seldom at a loss for words, and the chatty creatures of Indian Ink are no exception, debating subjects of art, language, and empire. So it’s striking that one of the first significant arguments in the play—originally written in the mid-1990s, and now making a belated New York debut at the Roundabout’s […]

Stable Girl

One of the first things actors do when they get a script, after taking note of all the dialogue and stage directions meant for their character, is to find all the things that other characters say about them. For Anna Camp, who plays English stable girl Jill Mason in the current Broadway revival of Equus, […]

“It’s a little like the day an AARP card arrives on your 50th birthday and you blanch a little and then you grin a little,” says playwright Jon Robin Baitz on the occasion of his first New York revival, which the Keen Company will stage when The Film Socie ty opens Oct. 1.

Bringing Bad Back

Carole Shelley, who created Madame Morrible, returns to the only truly wicked role in ‘Wicked’