Theatre: Individual Actors & Directors

Black Theater Is Black Life fills a critical gap in the history of African American culture in Chicago. Through interviews with prominent producers...

In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global change can be difficult to track, particularly in...

While much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remai...

The Lux Video Theatre was the longest-running radio drama program ever broadcast. Starting in 1934 the show usually featured a one-hour adaptati...

The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance artists from the past three decad...

A stunning backstage photographic study of Mark Rylance and the cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to re...

The Dead Class (1975), by Tadeusz Kantor and the Cricot 2 company, is considered one of the most innovative and influential works of twentieth-cent...

These eight women made remarkable contributions: Laura Keene challenged tradition in 1858 by heading her own dramatic troupe; her career was ruined...

Obituaries of performers and filmmakers, musicians and producers, dancers and composers, writers and others associated with the performing arts who...

Women played an integral role in the theater of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Yet their contributions have largely been overlooked by hist...

The entertainment world lost several legendary stars and a host of other men and women involved in the performing arts in 2012. Notables who died i...