Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like this one so successfully. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time, the company did dual productions of a play, Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, in English and Spanish, reaching an audience that local theaters rarely connect with. - ArtsATL
For the second year running, Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me is the country's most-produced play, and in fifth place is Selina Fillinger’s POTUS: Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. - The New York Times
Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse in California and known for directing the Broadway hit Come From Away, will succeed longtime Roundabout chief Todd Haimes, who died last year. - Variety
"Scholars have long suggested that Marlowe had a collaborator for the comic scenes of his classic play, although his name alone is on the 1604 published edition. Now a largely forgotten dramatist, Henry Porter, has emerged as the likely co-author, based on comparative linguistic evidence ... from his surviving play." - The Guardian
Theatre workers across the sector have now described to The Stage how they feel pressure to "power through" all but the most extreme health conditions due to financial insecurity and a "strict" culture. - The Stage
Matthieu Kassovitz's 1995 prize-winner is still considered the reference film about the crisis in France's suburban housing projects. After almost 30 years, Kassovitz and stage director Serge Denoncourt have turned it into a hip-hop musical — with the new subtitle "So Far, Nothing Has Changed." - AP
Meredith Monk, in her 60th year of performing: “We are all on this plane. … We’re all born, we’re all going to die, and we all want to be happy, so why are we wasting our time?” - The New York Times
France was late to American-style drag, but as at the Olympics, it’s now prominent. So: “Answering hatred with glitter is a time-honored drag tradition, and Drag Race France Live, which premiered in Paris this week, showed French drag in defiant form.” - The New York Times
The act of the only Black woman magician touring during Jim Crow “was fun, full of 'marvelous, mystifying magic, music and mirth,’ as her advertising posters said, … cautioning that she ‘will not pay for doctor bills if you faint from laughter.’” - The New York Times
This project started, as Hamilton did, as a concept album, which is being released next month. Miranda said that he won't proceed with creating and producing a stage show until he sees how the album is received. - Fast Company
Yet that's exactly what Scott Bakula will be doing when he assumes the title role in Herbert Mitgang’s 1979 solo play Mister Lincoln at the historic playhouse where the 16th President of the United States was assassinated. - The Washington Post (MSN)
At Ars Nova, Emily Shooltz fostered the work of dozens of early-career playwrights the organization commissioned and developed for production, and over 100 others through the organization’s Play Group and roster of artist residency programs. - Playbill
