381 stories from Carey Purcell
Jazz is a famously unstructured form of music. Often improvised, and unpredictable, it doesn't matter if there is no clear ending to the song: the mere experience of listening is thrilling e…
Originally published on Dramatics.org View this story online No one can accuse Reneé Rapp of method acting. The emerging star of Broadway's Mean Girls, who brings the scheming Queen Bee …
Originally published on Electric Literature View this story online One evening in late July, I huddled in a Manhattan basement, battling radioactive creatures and trying to stay alive in a p…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online Playwright Lily Houghton and director Kylie M. Brown discuss their world-premiere collaboration " Artists often channel their gr…
"A wives' world," the women sing as they triumphantly dance across the stage. ". . . and the male gaze will be cast away somewhere up among the stars . . ." With its empowered declarations a…
Originally published on TDF Stage View this story online The actor on reprising his role as Lonny in Rock of Ages Mitchell Jarvis credits Shakespeare with inspiring him to revisit his…
Winter Miller on the unexpected trajectory of her world-premiere play No One Is Forgotten " For years Winter Miller has been telling her playwriting students to "follow your yes," e…
Originally published on Electric Literature View this story online The road to hell is a lengthy passage in Hadestown, but the journey of Anais' Mitchell's re-envisioning of ancient Gr…
"That felt good," this critic thought after attending a performance of Hillary and Clinton, Lucas Hnath's topical new play in performances at the Golden Theatre. Almost three years …
The crushing of youthful ideals has fueled many a drama, both onstage and off. But few have accomplished this as powerfully, or as devastatingly, as Arthur Miller in his 1947 drama All My So…
Even the best garnishes can't save a badly-baked treat. Thus is the case of Benny and Joon, the latest movie-to-musical adaptation to take the stage. This pleasantly pleasing but unfulfillin…
As a teenager, playwright and performer Heidi Schreck visited many American Legion Halls, giving speeches on the Constitution that "drew a personal connection between your own life and the d…
Originally published at TDF Stages View this story online  Halley Feiffer and Trip Cullman discuss collaborating on The Pain of My Belligerence at Playwrights Horizons " "We joke t…
Originally published in TDF Stages View this story online Where to see female artists and women's stories on stage " According to the Broadway League, women make up 66% of Broadway au…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online A new musical comedy celebrates an unfairly maligned genre Fans of so-called chick flicks " cinematic stories centering on romance, …
Originally published in TDF Stages View this story online The co-creator of Next to Normal debuts Superhero Off-Broadway " Superhero at Second Stage Theatre is a homecoming fo…
Originally published in TDF Stages View this story online Marin Ireland is all fired up in Abby Rosebrock’s Blue Ridge In 2015, Abby Rosebrock‘s mentor said he was worr…
It was the phrase "unsung heroes" that captured Cara Reichel's attention. The hour-long PBS documentary spotlighting women in the military only devoted about two minutes to the Hello Girls, …
Originally published in American Theatre Magazine View this story online "I'm such a nerd," laughs Robert Serrell, executive director of the Barrow Group Theatre Company and School, t…
Originally published in American Theatre magazine View this story online Adam Noble had been teaching an advanced scene study class for just one month when he faced a startling encounter wit…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online Breaking new ground for women in theatre is nothing new for Emily Mann. The 66-year-old playwright and director, who has served as t…
Originally published on Electric Literature View this story online Where is Narnia?" I joked as I stepped through the back of the large wooden wardrobe featured in the center of a Lower …
"Welcome to the human social ritual known as theater," intones the pre-recorded voice before the curtain rises on Be More Chill. But theater is just one of the social rituals featured in thi…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online Working on two shows simultaneously has driven Andy Sandberg to drink — large quantities of Pepsi Max. “The actors…
The lanky man in the blonde wig has the right idea. The lights in the club are suitably dim, but he keeps his sunglasses on for almost his entire time onstage. Audience members at This Ain't…
