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Theater news and analysis from The Nation
July 8, 2020
We talked to Rachel Kauder Nalebuff about the politics of care, mourning, and her new book, Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling .
May 7, 2020
The loss of revenue from live events is only the start of this particular disaster.
April 21, 2020
For the playwright and activist, neither liberal reform nor countercultural art were enough. The very foundations of American democracy needed to be transformed.
November 12, 2019
Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.
October 28, 2019
In a conversation with The Nation , Kushner discusses the first major revival of A Bright Room Called Day , his Reagan-era political drama set in Weimar Germany.
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August 22, 2019
Three performances at the world’s biggest arts festival react to transphobic rhetoric in the UK.
August 6, 2019
As its New York run ends, What the Constitution Means to Me remains an urgent and salient critique of the country’s foundational document.
June 3, 2019
His new play, The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda , is an extremely earnest attempt to show Miranda the many errors of his blockbuster musical.
May 29, 2019
The African-American studies professor sits down with The Nation to discuss books, Beyoncé, and the radical potential of the academy.
May 28, 2019
In her recent play White Noise and a new film adaptation of Native Son , Parks probes the terrible truths of the American imagination.
