Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the preface to his new book, classicist Edwin Wong asserts: "Today, ...
To kick off its 25th season, The Garage Theatre will present the world premiere of Tragedy Giftshop by Ryan McClary, directed by Matthew Anderson. Tragedy Giftshop is set in Townesville, USA, a small ...
When theater historians seek to know the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts in Chicago, the wisest heads will pay some attention to Court Theatre’s 100-minute cutting of “The Tragedy of ...
The Garage Theatre’s 25th season opens with a gut punch. “Tragedy Giftshop,” Ryan McClary’s latest world premiere, is a searing, darkly comic exploration of grief, capitalism, and the uneasy ...
In many ways this is the perfect play for the beginning of a new era at the National. The origins of Western theatre are acknowledged in the choice of a Greek classic, played in the Olivier auditorium ...
In Kathy Griffin’s life, there are no sacred cows. Since starting her career in the 1980s, the two-time Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian has fearlessly taken on celebrities, Hollywood, her ...
A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...