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Theater news and analysis from The Nation
November 2, 2018
A Midwestern tour of Sweat , staged in community spaces, invites its audience into the play.
November 1, 2018
Through bravery and pain, she wrote with fierce love for young black women.
October 22, 2018
Then she wrote a play about it—and gave the story a happier ending.
September 11, 2018
In her newest play, Lee offers us a look at the straight white man as a specimen.
August 1, 2018
When it first debuted, Angels in America helped mark the rising fortunes of the gay-rights movement in the 1990s and early 2000s. What does it tell us about today?
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May 30, 2018
Along with opportunity, recent revivals of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of the People bring much risk.
May 24, 2018
A certain critical consternation awaited the current productions of My Fair Lady and Carousel —and with good reason.
February 21, 2018
Community-run cultural centers are rejuvenating post-industrial life, especially for a younger generation.
November 15, 2017
In his poetry, Brecht captured a world torn apart by war and depression.
June 20, 2017
Julius Caesar is hardly an endorsement of assassination—but neither is it the celebration of “small-d democrats” that the Public Theater wants it to be.
