New York Theatre Workshop has long been heralded as one of the city’s top incubators of imaginative, inventive musical theatre. After the spectacular success of last fall’s glittering, cerebral Lazarus (the Ivo van Hove/Enda Walsh/David Bowie collaboration), NYTW is shifting gears to offer something a little more down-home. The final show in their 2015/16 season, Hadestown, translates singer-songwriter Anaïs…
Author: Olivia Rubino-Finn
A Write Teacher(s) Spotlight: Eclipsed
What purpose does theatre serve? It’s a timeless question with a multiplicity of answers: theatre might aim to entertain, to inform, to persuade, even to provoke. When asked for my opinion, I tend to quote the actor Mark Strong, who once said in an interview that he hopes his audience goes “out into the night…