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Theater
Theater news and analysis from The Nation
March 25, 2016
What can Chile’s Santiago a Mil festival tell us about the country?
March 11, 2016
The new, wonderfully acted Broadway play sheds light on the untold stories of the women who lived through the second Liberian civil war.
January 29, 2016
Dramatizing the school-to-prison pipeline—and organizing theater audiences in the process.
January 28, 2016
Plus Bill McKibben on climate change, and Anna Deavere Smith on Baltimore.
December 27, 2015
“All at once there is a vast firmament overhead, and a great distance stretching out under it.”
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December 7, 2015
At its best, the Japanese-internment musical Allegiance seethes with righteous anger beneath its perkiness and platitudes.
October 30, 2015
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Jessica Hagedorn’s groundbreaking novel Dogeaters .
October 22, 2015
As Hedwig prepares a national tour, its creator talks with our editors about the show’s genesis, ’90s New York, and socialist project management.
August 27, 2015
The bracing fusion of hip hop and the musical form shows that America’s history—and its future—belong to men and women of color as profoundly as to anyone else.
August 13, 2015
Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi gets reimagined as the murderous fantasy of an angsty teenage boy.
