Megan Halverson

If there is any generic setting for short plays, writes the editor of a recent volume of such works, it's a restaurant. The built-in pauses that come with being seated, ordering and eating offer writers a clean structure in the often scary world of narrative. And the defined sense of...

There are rare moments in theater when the line between art and life fades and the twain meet. Tamarie Cooper knows about that line, and about that meeting, and in Tamalalia Two she greets them with a martini in hand. Two, as the name implies, is a follow-up to Tamalalia!,...

Harlem's Pointe Ballet dancers, sheltered as they often are, seem unlikely prospects for a labor strike. But every now and then the art world's athletes get as upset as anyone else about their work conditions and pull a walkout. That's what happened in New York City early last month with...

August Wilson's Two Trains Running, an installment in the subscriber-sharing deal between the Alley and the Ensemble theaters, seems an appropriate entry in the series. The play, perhaps more so than anything else offered up during the audience exchange, presents a window on the world of the middle-class black in...

The great frustration of being a lover of alternative theater is being limited -- by geography or vacation dollars -- to the amount of risky fare available in any given city. It was just such a frustration that, 50 years ago, led the alternative theater artists in Scotland to band...