Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes. In the singing land that is the musical theatre, ...

“It came out in a torrent,” Emily Kaczmarek said of the 2018 first draft of her play Soft Target. “Sometimes plays feel like that to me—sort of like a primal scream I just had to get out.” Early in ...

In 1943, when the horrors of the Holocaust were still not widely known, the famed screenwriter joined other big names for a pageant that toured the U.S. to raise awareness—and to celebrate resistance ...

What’s the elevator pitch for Hymn? It’s about two Black men who meet at a funeral and realize they have more in common than they ever imagined. They get to know each other and fall in love—familial, ...

PHILADELPHIA: A new biannual Philadelphia Death and Arts Festival (PDAF) has been announced, incorporating performance and educational elements with the aim of transforming person- and ...

Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s new play at the Bushwick Starr isn’t just about his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. She’s also his co-star. My first question for playwright Shayok Misha Chowdhury ...

A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.

From the deadliest theatre fire in U.S. history to a young Tennessee Williams’s fateful move to New Orleans, December was a momentous month. From a Detroit jazz club to a secret fountain of youth, ...