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ROLE CALL • PEOPLE TO WATCH
YOU CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE • WELL, MAYBE NOT ANYWHERE—BUT HERE ARE 6 CITIES WHERE THEATRE WORKERS CAN THRIVE OUTSIDE NYC, L.A., OR CHICAGO
Don’t Quit Your Day Job (No, Really) • Making ends meet shouldn’t be a playwright’s shame; IT SHOULD BE CLAIMED AS A SUPERPOWER
DON’T BREAK A LEG • INJURIES ARE PART OF THE GIG, BUT PERFORMERS SHOULDN’T BE EXPECTED TO GIVE TILL IT LITERALLY HURTS
Theatre’s Front Lines • For house managers and theatre services directors, the work is invisible but rewarding
Octavio Solis’s Journey to ‘Mother Road’ • The Texas-born, Oregon-based playwright imagines a Steinbeck sequel with timely resonance
JoAnne Akalaitis Bears ‘Bad News’ • The visionary director returns to the stage with timely messages from the Greeks
Two for One • How a small Florida theatre saved its big, foundering counterpart in a nearby town
Norwegian Wood • A hefty new Ibsen biography gives us a deeply difficult man in full
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box
Unraveling the Landscape • An interview with the playwright
He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box
In Class With Professor Kennedy • How the playwright led a cohort of young writers to a threshold—and what lay beyond it
A Liberating Beacon • Colleagues and former students share tributes to playwright Adrienne Kennedy
ONSTAGE SEPTEMBER19 • Here’s what’s playing this month at TCG theatres nationwide. For the most up-to-date information about performance schedules, contact the theatre or visit Theatre Profiles online: tcg.org/profiles.
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OFFSTAGE • Billy Porter, who won a Tony for Kinky Boots and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy for “Pose,” is the director of Dan McCabe’s The Purists at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston (Aug. 30-Sept. 29), a new play about the unlikely friendship among a rapper, a DJ, and a musical-loving senior citizen.
