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GALA Wins Big Despite Loss at 2023 Helen Hayes Awards
Shortly after announcing the death of its co-founder, Hugo Medrano, GALA Hispanic Theatre swept the Helen Hayes Awards.
Irish Myth and Tragedy in Three By Yeats
The verse of Irish poet William Butler Yeats is known on these shores, but his plays are performed less often. Yet as a founding member of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, he was no mere dabbler. Yeats, an Irish nationalist, did not just aim to write on Irish themes but to create new theatrical forms distinct from…
Eleanor Holdridge Makes Hamlet a Fast-Paced Revenge Thriller
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s quietly mind-blowing production of Hamlet, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, is worth a trip to Baltimore.
Here There Are Blueberries Investigates a Nazi Paradise
Now playing at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Tectonic Theater Project’s latest show illustrates how the dream of utopia can fuel genocide.
Playwright James Ijames: Good Bones, Great Timing
There are bets that pay off handsomely but predictably, like when a home increases in value over years. Then there are the jackpots you just can’t anticipate, like when a theater hires a promising up-and-comer and—four years and one global pandemic later—finds itself opening a brand-new work from a Pulitzer winner who’s become the toast…