Gregory Bernard

AN AMERICAN STORY GETS A NEW LIFE Lynn Nottage, John Legend, Whitney White, and Adrienne Warren take on a story that has been provoking America for nearly a century Some source material arrives onstage carrying more baggage than most shows acquire in a lifetime. Imitation of Life has had nearly a century to accumulate its…

THE PICTURES WE CANNOT LOOK AWAY FROM Moisés Kaufman investigates what an album of Nazi photographs can tell us about the people smiling inside them I’ll see anything Moisés Kaufman puts onstage. From The Laramie Project onward, he has been one of our most adventurous theater makers, particularly when working with documentary material. He knows…

ABE AMONG THE GRAVES Death of Classical takes “Lincoln in the Bardo” where it was practically begging to go: the cemetery Talk about knowing your venue. Before the Metropolitan Opera unveils Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo on October 19, Death of Classical is taking this ghost-filled new opera out for a…

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW, WHETHER YOU NEED ONE OR NOT Bill Irwin makes a house call on Molière There are hypochondriacs, and then there is Argan, the gloriously self-absorbed “professional patient” at the center of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid. This fall, Tony winner Bill Irwin returns to Broadway, and to a playwright particularly…

10 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT THIS ALREADY The popular teen comedy heads to Broadway with Carly Rae Jepsen supplying the tunes Padua High is back in session. 10 Things I Hate About You, the 1999 teen comedy that introduced a generation to Kat Stratford, Patrick Verona—and Heath Ledger singing his way across a set of…

MANGA À TROIS Duncan Sheik and Leah Nanako Winkler turn Moyoco Anno’s provocative graphic novel into an Off-Broadway musical A manga set in early 20th-century Paris is about to become an American musical, and it is getting a suitably unusual home. Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, with music and lyrics by Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik…