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Tony Kushner on Theatre in America

By RAVEN SNOOK

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 • Playwriting • 2 comments Share This

Tue Jun 5, 2018 • Playwriting • 2 comments Share This

The playwright talks Angels, access and the future of culture in this country --- It's a year of meaningful theatre milestones: TDF is turning 50 as Tony Kushner's magnum opus, the two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, enjoys its 25th anniversary production on Broadway. We are thrilled that he...

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Cultures and Generations Clash on the Court

By DIEP TRAN

Friday, June 01, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Fri Jun 1, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Basketball serves as a multifaceted metaphor in Lauren Yee's The Great Leap --- Growing up, Lauren Yee's father Larry loved to regale her with tales from his youth, especially how he used to play basketball all day and night on the asphalt courts of San Francisco's Chinatown. In 1981, Larry even traveled to China to play against the country's top...

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How Many Themes Can You Find in 'the hollower'?

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, May 31, 2018 • Playwriting • 1 comment Share This

Thu May 31, 2018 • Playwriting • 1 comment Share This

How 17th-century Canadian history inspired this meditation on contemporary sexuality --- The performance of femininity; 17th-century Canadian history; a half-man, half-pig podcaster; Claymation and morbid doo-wop songs. All of these disparate elements figure in the hollower, an ambitious new play by Liza Birkenmeier. Produced by New Light Theater...

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How Do You Make a Dance Play?

By ERIKA GOULD

Friday, May 25, 2018 • Playwriting • 1 comment Share This

Fri May 25, 2018 • Playwriting • 1 comment Share This

Writer David Thompson on how he helped build The Beast in the Jungle --- When Tony-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman said that the protagonist of The Beast in the Jungle was "waltzing through life," everything clicked. Stroman, Tony-winning composer John Kander and Tony-nominated book writer David Thompson had been talking about adapting...

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What Are They Really Wrestling With?

By BILLY MCENTEE

Monday, May 21, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Mon May 21, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Experimental theatre-maker Erin Markey explores the nature of intimacy in Singlet --- Erin Markey's Singlet is a wrestling match, both literally and figuratively. It features headlocks and takedowns aplenty, but it's the psychological grappling that propels each of the duets in the performer-playwright's daring world premiere at Brooklyn's Bushwick...

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How Did Life Change After Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami?

By DOUG STRASSLER

Friday, May 18, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Fri May 18, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Playwright Toshiki Okada examines the aftershocks of a disaster --- The three characters in Time's Journey Through a Room, the latest collaboration between renowned Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada and The Play Company, make up a very unusual triangle. It would give away too much to explain exactly how they're related, but it's not a spoiler to reveal...

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Three Plays to Put on Your Summerworks Radar

By DIEP TRAN

Thursday, May 17, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Thu May 17, 2018 • Playwriting • 0 comments Share This

Clubbed Thumb's annual theatre festival is an incubator for up-and-coming playwrights --- You probably won't recognize the names Trish Harnetiaux, Angela Hanks and Will Arbery, but if you're a lover of offbeat new plays, commit them to memory. They're the three emerging dramatists featured in this year's Summerworks, Clubbed Thumb's annual theatre...

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