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FRONT & CENTER • ‘Eugene’ Holds a Picking Party
A STRONG DRINK
MUSIC AND THE MIRROR
SLAM PLAY
FAMILY CUTS
MEGAN MULLALLY • The Will & Grace star, whose career began on the stage, makes a theatrical return with Iceboy! or The Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O’Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh, at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, June 9-July 26.
ALAN MURAOKA • Best known for his role on Sesame Street, Muraoka has also appeared on Broadway and directed at regional theatres across the country. The New York-based artist will next helm Wai Yim and Jason Ma’s TYA play The Great Race at Rose Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, April 17-May 3.
The COMPANY WAY • When acting ensembles were more prevalent in U.S. theatres, actors had the chance to put down roots in a community. Is that dream over?
For STARTERS • Want to found a new theatre company? Here’s the lay of the land in 2026.
State of PLAY • Why the theatre industry’s new-play push hasn’t improved the playwrights’ lot.
Entre aquí y allá • Poised between island and mainland, Boricua artists create work that feels like home wherever they are.
LOOP Dreams • How ‘Mexodus’ went from concept album to crackling live show to audio play with its timely tale of migrant and fugitive solidarity.
FURLOUGH’S PARADISE • At the crux between the end and the beginning, there is space; with a sliver of space, a period of three hard-won days, two descendants of the U.S. Great Migration attempt to build a ritual for grieving. In this searing two-hander, cousins with seemingly starkly different lives imagine worlds from the end of their familial lineage.
RUPTURE AND RITUAL
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