As a young actor, Joe Mantello played Louis in George C. Wolfe's Broadway production of Angels in America. In the years since, Mantello became a director himself, and stayed a close colleague and friend of Wolfe. Here, the two Tony winners discuss what success and failure means to them, how they work with actors, and what it takes to create a joyful rehearsal environment.
Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, Oslo) sits down with his former mentee Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park With George) for an extended chat on their past collaborations and their individual approaches to the art of stage directing.
TheaterMania Managing Editor David Gordon facilitates a conversation between comedian Mike Birbiglia (The New One), and one Birbiglia's idols, actor Martin Moran (The Tricky Part), about the art of solo performance and the strength it takes to bare your soul onstage eight times a week.
Broadway's first play back is Pass Over, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's contemporary riff on Waiting for Godot and the biblical Exodus story at the August Wilson Theatre. Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood play Moses and Kitch, two young men waiting on a street corner, trying to figure out a way ...
