The Public Theater

Black Lives Matter and the universality of Shakespeare come together this Juneteenth in a powerful new video from The Public Theater

Deb Miller 2020-06-19

As part of its weekly digital series #BraveNewShakespeare, which challenges members of the theater community to create their own interpretations of what Shakespeare’s words mean to them today, The...

See who won the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards

Deb Miller 2020-06-13

Recipients of the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards for outstanding achievements in New York theater (on, Off, and Off-Off Broadway) of the 2019-20 season were announced tonight by a star-studded roster...

Diverse online offerings to watch this weekend

Deb Miller 2020-06-11

Even though it’s remote, you can still keep your connection to the theater strong with a diverse selection of virtual offerings this weekend. From livestream concerts, original cast readings, and...

Theaters are closed but the music plays on in Ghostlight Records’ original cast albums

Deb Miller 2020-05-08

Though audiences aren’t able to enjoy live on-stage performances during the ongoing coronavirus shutdown, Ghostlight Records offers cast recordings from a selection of popular musicals for digital...

The Apple Family returns with ‘What Do We Need to Talk About?’ on Zoom

Deb Miller 2020-04-28

In 2010, award-winning playwright Richard Nelson began his series of plays in The Rhinebeck Panorama, named for the town in upstate New York where he lives. After ten years of installments on the...

New release and free audio streaming of ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ from Audible Theater

Deb Miller 2020-04-27

The latest title in the popular Audible Theater series of audio-plays, Sea Wall/A Life – the sold-out New York stage hit double bill of two moving direct-address monologues reflecting on love, life,...

Audible offers free audio-plays of hits from the New York stage

Deb Miller 2020-04-04

For a limited time, Audible Theater, a division of Amazon, is offering free audio versions of a selection of popular stage productions from the past year, narrated by the original cast. So if you...

Conor McPherson takes a new approach to the jukebox musical in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Belasco Theatre

Deb Miller 2020-03-11

In Girl from the North Country, playing an open engagement at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre following successful runs in London and Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, Irish playwright and director Conor...

Political history repeating itself in ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ at The Public Theater

Deb Miller 2019-11-29

Tony Kushner’s newly revised first play, A Bright Room Called Day, written and debuted during the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, is back for our present time in an updated incarnation at...

An expressive revival of a ground-breaking work: ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf’ at The Public Theater

Deb Miller 2019-11-17

First presented at The Public Theater in 1976, the Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, by playwright/poet Ntozake Shange – a pioneering voice in...

A ridiculously funny and revelatory vision of East meets West in ‘Soft Power’ at The Public Theater

Deb Miller 2019-11-04

On November 29, 2015, Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly) survived a potentially fatal knife attack to his neck on the street near his home in Brooklyn. That unprovoked (and...

Review: ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ at the Hudson Theatre

Deb Miller 2019-08-14

Following its sold-out Off-Broadway run at The Public Theater this past winter, Sea Wall/A Life has made its transfer to Broadway for a limited engagement at the Hudson Theatre. Comprised of two...

Review: ‘We’re Gonna Die’ by Flying V at The Writer’s Center

Ravelle Brickman 2019-05-28

When Farrell Parker steps out onto the black box stage at The Writer’s Center in Flying V’s version of We’re Gonna Die, something explodes. Light and sound—literally—erupt. And while much of the...

Perfecting the ‘Burn’: Props Master Jay Duckworth on Styling the Iconic ‘Hamilton’ Song

Jay Duckworth 2018-06-25

As a Props Master, you try and read through a script and see where the big “what ifs” are, but there is always a human factor that you just can’t predict. In Hamilton, one big “what if” was the song...

‘Hamlet’ at Laurel Hill Cemetery: An Interview with Rosey Hay and Rudy Caporaso of the REV Theatre Company

Henrik Eger 2017-07-08

Every year, the REV Theatre Company fills Laurel Hill Cemetery — Philadelphia’s resting place of the rich, the powerful, and the famous — with an almost cult-like following of theatergoers, who see...

Opinion: ‘Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and the Fine Art of Dissent’

Andrew Walker White 2017-06-20

It’s a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that Shakespeare was writing about our...

Review: ‘Detroit ’67’ at The Stagecrafters Theater

Neal Newman 2017-04-09

Two young black men stumble upon an expensively dressed but badly beaten young white woman in the ghetto. What do they do? If it’s Detroit in 1967, you certainly can’t involve yourself with the...

Review: ‘A New Brain’ at Theatre Horizon

Madeline Marshall 2016-10-21

I definitely would not “rather be sailing…”, I would rather be at Theatre Horizon’s production of A New Brain! The hilarious and touching show follows Gordon Schwinn, a songwriter for a children’s...

An Interview with Broadway Music Director Ted Sperling on ‘An Evening with the Music of Marvin Hamlisch’ at the Library of Congress on 10/19

David Rohde 2015-10-13

What better place to celebrate the life and work of Marvin Hamlisch than right here in Washington? But the reasons for An Evening with the Music of Marvin Hamlisch on Monday, October 19, 2015 with...