285 stories from The Interval
In playwright Hansol Jung's world of glorious magical realism, the Internet is portrayed by people singing in binary code and fathers turning into penguins who have lost their wings. Those a…
Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer and directed by Tyne Rafaeli centers around Kyeoung, a young Asian-American woman coming of age in the '90s and early 2000s, and the messy, sometimes dangerous, s…
Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America, but her plays have almost entirely been produced outside of NYC. Presented this fall at The Women's Project, in a product…
In the new musical, The Prom, Caitlin Kinnunen plays a teenager who just wants to take her girlfriend to the high school prom. It's Caitlin's first lead role in a Broadway musical. She's …
Have you ever wondered why The Interval, a theatre site, has political content? Editor Victoria Myers explains why The Interval considers spotlighting the politics of the community part of a…
Have you ever wondered why The Interval, a theatre site, has political content? Editor Victoria Myers explains why The Interval considers spotlighting the politics of the community part of a…
Playwright Miranda Rose Hall and director Margot Bordelon to discuss their latest work, "Plot Points in Our Sexual Development" at LCT3. The show, which is described by LCT as "a contemporar…
With the midterm elections approaching, we wanted to do our part to help save democracy. We asked people we've interviewed to tell us about candidates, issues, and races that they care about…
With the midterm elections approaching, we wanted to do our part to help save democracy. We asked people we've interviewed to tell us about candidates, issues, and races that they care about…
The Thanksgiving Play, currently in previews at Playwrights Horizons, marks the New York debut of Larissa FastHorse and is believed to be the first time a play by a Native American has been …
The new musical, Renascence, is about Edna St. Vincent Millay and is the first musical by Carmel Dean. We speak to Carmel about her love of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry, what it was lik…
In Charise Castro Smith's new play El Huracán, hurricanes both literal and figurative bear down on four generations of women as they confront their history, what they've lost, and what th…
Jenny Koons is not interested in playing by the rules of traditional theatre. Her productions are rooted in activism and community, like her A Midsummer Night's Dream for The Public Theater'…
A life in the theatre has unique challenges for people dealing with mental health conditions including instability, rejection, lack of financial resources, intense emotion, and more. We gath…
Director Leigh Silverman put together Broadway's first all-female design team. Photographer Tess Mayer spent two afternoons with them at tech documenting these individuals in a room together…
Director Leigh Silverman put together Broadway's first all-female design team. Photographer Tess Mayer spent two afternoons with them at tech documenting these individuals in a room together…
We now have a monthly Letter from the Editor! This month's is about the need to view women as individuals who do not need to justify their existence in creative fields.Â
The post Letter f…
We now have a monthly Letter from the Editor! This month's is about the need to view women as individuals who do not need to justify their existence in creative fields.Â
For the last few years, there has been increasing interest around director Lila Neugebauer, with many theatre-watchers wondering when she'd make her Broadway debut. Well, now she is, with Th…
Adam Guettel told the theatre community who he is. It is long past time for the theatre community to look at what type of community it truly is and for individuals with a platform to speak u…
Adam Guettel told the theatre community who he is. It is long past time for the theatre community to look at what type of community it truly is and for individuals with a platform to speak u…
We showcase seven more women who shaped the theatre landscape as we know it today. Some overcame gender or race discrimination but persevered at a time when the field was not welcoming. S…
We showcase seven more women who shaped the theatre landscape as we know it today. Some overcame gender or race discrimination but persevered at a time when the field was not welcoming. S…
The Constitution"which is very in or very out right now depending on how you look at it"is the subject of What the Constitution Means to Me a new play written and starring Heidi Schreck. Mor…
Geraldine Inoa and Gracie Gardner have a lot in common. Both are young writers who are relatively self-trained (neither chose to pursue an MFA) and who go back and forth between the worlds o…
