Rob Weinert-Kendt

1 week ago | americantheatre.org | Daniella Ignacio |Rob Weinert-Kendt

Call it a Friday night massacre: On the evening of May 2—just hours after the Trump administration released a proposed budget that would entirely eliminate the both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), among dozens of other federal agencies—hundreds of arts organizations of all sizes and kinds across the U.S. received emails from the NEA withdrawing pending grants and terminating existing ones, in amounts ranging from $10,000 to...

1 week ago | americantheatre.org | Rob Weinert-Kendt

WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Trump has released a 2026 budget proposal which includes, among many deep cuts to federal spending, the wholesale elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as several other federal and regional cultural agencies.

2 weeks ago | americantheatre.org | Rob Weinert-Kendt

Emotions are running high backstage at an off-brand bilingual tour of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! In Christin Eve Cato’s wild, frank new play O.K.! (at New York City’s INTAR Theatre May 10-June 8), Melinda, an actor, finds out she’s pregnant and has doubts about going through with it. Her castmates—young, salty Elena and soulful, jaded Jolie—have plenty of opinions to share, as do a few supernatural visitors.

3 weeks ago | americantheatre.org | Rob Weinert-Kendt

My first question for playwright Shayok Misha Chowdhury and his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty—who appear together in Rheology, a beautiful and disarming 75-minute meditation on mortality and family at the Bushwick Starr through May 10—was a simple one: How on earth did you rope your mom into this?

1 month ago | americamagazine.org | Rob Weinert-Kendt

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription options“John Proctor Is the Villain” depicts a quintet of teenage girls with remarkable acuity and clear-eyed sympathy. (Photo courtesy of DKC O&M). The #MeToo movement that burst into wide public currency in 2017 gave a name, and a hashtag, to the old and pervasive crimes of sexual assault and harassment, particularly of women and girls by men in positions of social power.