About the author:
Diane Paulus first took Broadway by storm in 2009, when her vibrant interpretation of Hair in Central Park transferred to the Hirschfeld Theatre. Since her acclaimed Broadway debut, the three-time Tony-nominated director has helmed two more groundbreaking revivals on the Great White Way: a passionate Porgy and Bess in 2012 and a reimagined, circus-inspired Pippin in 2013 ...

About the author:
Over the past 16 years, director Michael Wilson has become one of the premiere interpreters of Horton Foote’s vast catalogue of plays depicting family life in Texas. Wilson collaborated with the esteemed playwright until his death in 2009, notably on the Broadway production of Dividing the Estate and the off-Broadway trilogy The Orphans’ Home Cycle, as ...

About the author:
Tony winner and three-time Oscar nominee John Logan is back on Broadway with I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, his first show since the 2010 award-winning drama Red. As in Red, Logan is bringing a historical figure back to vivid life, but this time the artist in question is one of Hollywood’s ...

About the author:
Mark Brokaw has guided the New York premieres of plays by America’s best contemporary writers, including the original staging of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winner How I Learned to Drive, Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero, Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown and Nicky Silver’s The Lyons ...

About the author:
Philadelphia-born playwright Lyle Kessler began his career as an actor, studying with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio before turning his attention to writing plays. Kessler’s dramas, including The Watering Place, which opened on Broadway in 1969, are known for their gritty realism and dark humor. After spending the past 30 years in Los Angeles, Kessler ...

About the author:
Four-time Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane is showing audiences another side of his talent in the new Broadway play The Nance, a burlesque-set drama starring Nathan Lane about gay life in 1930s New York. Beane has, of course, created memorable and hilarious scripts for Sister Act, Xanadu, Lysistrata Jones and the current hit revival of Cinderella, as ...

About the author:
There’s no question about it: Everybody wants a piece of Richard Greenberg right now. The Tony-winning writer of more than 25 plays has three major productions premiering on and off Broadway this spring. Greenberg's new play The Assembled Parties, starring Judith Light, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, begins performances on March 26 at the Friedman ...

About the author:
Tony winner Jerry Mitchell has enjoyed a celebrated career choreographing and/or directing Broadway musicals, including Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Grease, The Full Monty, La Cage aux Folles and Catch Me If You Can. Now Mitchell lends his considerable talents to Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. Based on a true story and ...

About the Author:
Doug Wright has a knack for writing acclaimed plays based on true stories. After adapting the life and work of Marquis de Sade into off-Broadway’s Quills, Wright won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for I Am My Own Wife, based on the life of German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Wright penned the books for ...

About the author:
Nobody knows more about Shakespeare than Tina Packer, who has directed every play the Bard ever wrote and acted in plenty of them, too, beginning at the Royal Shakespeare Company in her native country and later as artistic director at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires. She has written books for MBAs (Power Plays: Shakespeare’s Lessons in ...