Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

Making Over My Fair Lady

To return to the DCPA Subscriber News Center, click here. Americans love a good makeover. If you doubt it, there have been more than a dozen reality TV shows and countless magazines – most, but not all, geared to women – showcasing the benefits of transformation: new clothes, new makeup, new grooming, new hairdo and, voila, […]

The cast of Mean Girls poses in Christmas themed costumes

The Creators of Mean Girls

To return to the DCPA Subscriber News Center, click here. Provided by Mean Girls. How do you take a movie that people know by heart and make something new out of it? Can you take established characters and open them up to go deeper? And what about phones, y’all?! What are we gonna do about phones?! […]

A sketch of Afong Moy in her room, filled with Chinese objects

Q&A with Seema Sueko, Director of The Chinese Lady

To return to the DCPA Subscriber News Center, click here. DCPA NEWSCENTER: How did you come to direct the DCPA Theatre Company’s production of The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh? SEEMA SUEKO: Artistic Director Chris Coleman reached out to me with the opportunity in March of this year. I had worked at DCPA in 2018, […]

A colorful composite sketch of the set for The Chinese Lady

The Design Inspiration of The Chinese Lady

To return to the DCPA Subscriber News Center, click here. If you are in theatre design, you really should consider your job title. Authority. Craftsperson. Expert. Guru. Wizard. And maybe most aptly, jack of all trades. For, you see, theatre designers aren’t just good with a pencil, sewing machine, lighting instrument or paintbrush. No. They […]

Male on the left is holding his hand up while the female on the right is asking him for something with her hands out

Insight into Hadestown

To return to the DCPA Subscriber News Center, click here. Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown writer and composer, & Rachel Chavkin, Broadway director of Hadestown Q&A Q: What inspired Hadestown? ANAÏS MITCHELL: I was just at the beginning of a career as a singer-songwriter and I was driving from one tip gig to another when the melody […]