The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda deconstructs the Broadway play’s abolitionist portrayal of the founding father with incisive, impeccably-researched satire.
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Debating Whether the US Constitution Should Be Abolished
The film version of Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has all the stage show’s strengths — and flaws.
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Hanako Wada Is Hosting LGBTQ Study Groups for Theater Folks
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Raja Feather Kelly Wants Sustainability to Become “Actual Practice”
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
The Inheritance, a Play Haunted by Outdated Gay Archetypes
Having now announced it will close on March 15 (earlier than expected), we might look at exactly why The Inheritance failed to connect with New York audiences.
A Minimalist Take on Medea Delivers Maximal Drama
In Simon Stone’s adaptation, the conflict is not cultural but psychological, and viewers can’t help but empathize with her.
Probing the Tensions Between the Universal and the Specific in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls
Then and now, Shange’s work responds to an urgent fever pitch humming beneath the taut surface of pain and respectability. A dazzling revival at the Public Theater reminds us of its timelessness.
What Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls Means in the Age of #MeToo
If you are surprised or stunned by recent revelations concerning sexual assault and harassment, it is because you have been, like most of American culture, ignoring Black women. Shange’s choreopoem, now running as a revival at the Public Theater, reminds us to pay attention.
When Theater Champions Queer and Marginalized Voices
The Corkscrew Theater Festival offers a lineup of performances from underrepresented creatives.
The Beautiful and the Damned of Oklahoma!
A rebellious Broadway revival of the 1943 musical brings hatred into the heartland — a stunning indictment of America’s current woes.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton Collaborators Save Drama Book Shop From Closing
A recent rent increase had imperiled the century-old bookshop in the New York Theatre District , which has fostered countless award-winning playwrights and composers — like Miranda himself.
The Viscerally Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Transported to My Christian Upbringing
The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.