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AMERICAN THEATRE | Grad Expectations
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (1902+ words) Theatre students from the class of 2024 tell us how they're faring in a changing market. I couch-surfed at friends' apartments, and for a month I shared a bunk bed with my toddler cousins in Brooklyn before finally landing a lease....
A Play Without Live Actors: Is ‘An Ark’ Theatre’s Afterlife?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (568+ words) With a script by Simon Stephens and a (video-captured) cast of 4, a new mixed-reality experience at The Shed may be the closest this new medium has come to a bona fide play. As An Ark opens, actor Golda Rosheuvel enters…...
At the Verbatim Salon, Immigrants Speak Through Actors
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (405+ words) A monthly gathering produced by the American Playwriting Foundation channels stories of the U.S. immigration system with the unique theatrical urgency of in-ear verbatim technique. David Bar Katz, American Playwriting Foundation's founding artistic director, admitted some initial skepticism about the in-ear…...
Mark Brokaw: Class, Wit, and True Collaboration
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (226+ words) A friend and colleague remembers the director as a private but passionate man who treated new plays like classics, and classics like new plays. Director Mark Brokaw, known for directing dozens of major American plays, mostly Off-Broadway, including How I…...