by JK Clarke   On the heels of last year’s controversial (and totally misunderstood) social-commentary-tinged Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar, one could have easily expected the mounting of Shakespeare’s most racially charged play, Othello,...

    by Sandi Durell   Playwright Dominique Morisseau writes about what she knows. . . Detroit, its history and inner-city turmoil in African-American neighborhoods. She is the author of The Detroit Project(a three play cycle) that includes Skelton Crew and Paradise Blue and has...

  The 2017 Lilly Awards took place at Playwrights Horizons on May 22 celebrating women in the American Theater and included JulieTaymor, DenéeBenton, MickiGrant, Toni-Leslie James, Mandy Greenfield, Madison Ferris, and Beanie Feldstein, along with presenters Cynthia Nixon, Ruben...

    by Michel Bracken     Remember leisure suits? Consider yourself lucky if you don’t, but either way don’t let that stop you from catching the sterling revival of August Wilson’s Jitney, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.  ...

      By Brian Scott Lipton   To start this season, the folks at City Center Encores! have taken a chance on “Cabin in the Sky,” the 1940 musical fable about a poor Southern black man given a second chance to live by the Lord (yet still desired by the devil) and his almost...

      by: Michael Bracken       It’s 2008 and corrosion continues to rule the Rust Belt. Welcome to the world of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, at Atlantic Stage 2. Set in Detroit, Morisseau’s drama, uneven but simmering with working-class intensity, charts...