Tuesday, April 25, 2023
The current artistic director the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Sharif will succeed Molly Smith when the longtime AD retires in June.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:30AM[SHARE]The program offers playwrights dramaturgical and career support over a 10-month period, with the aim completing a draft of an original full-length play.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
The creator of impro, a hugely influential approach to improvisational theatremaking, Keith Johnstone is still guiding students, even after his death.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:08PM[SHARE]Aya Ogawa is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission, while Gethsemane Herron and Rachel Jendrzejewski are the new McKnight Fellows.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PM[SHARE]The weekend's lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:07PM[SHARE]After a COVID hiatus, the award recognizing art and social impact will give be given to 3 recipients for the years 2021-2023.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
The pandemic forced educators to reimagine theatre training, and while inflation and dwindling enrollment are adding pressure, some programs are using this moment to innovate.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:57AM[SHARE]The event will feature plays by Tira Palmquist, Austin Owens Kelly, and Vasanti Saxena.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:19AM[SHARE]Reilly and Santory will receive both private and public readings of their work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:04AM[SHARE]A playwright who finds writing musicals both impossible and irresistible, he has a new adaptation of 'An American Tail' opening at Children's Theatre Company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The theatre says they'll announce a 2023-24 season soon, though summer programming is off and the resident acting company will go back to show-to-show hiring.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:34AM[SHARE]Rest Up, the first in a series of planned gatherings in a national initiative to advance a more equitable theatre ecology, will be held April 27-28.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Yasmina Reza's popular play makes a belated Off-Broadway debut in a kinetic new production by Theatre Breaking Through Barriers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:05PM[SHARE]This 4-month state-wide celebration of theatrical abundance is already strengthening bonds among artists and audiences, all while keeping the focus on new writing.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:26AM[SHARE]The D.C. columnist and playwright talks about how writing is like making cotton candy, how 'MILF Manor' is like Greek drama, and how an editor can help you find the parade.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:15AM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2023
After 35 seasons at the helm of the landmark state theatre, Pierce will make way for new leadership.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:48PM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2023
This year's recipients include Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:20PM[SHARE]Her 'Thanskgiving Play' is the first play by a Native woman playwright on Broadway, but you can leave your virtue-signaling and tragedy-porn expectations at the door.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:36PM[SHARE]Arena Stage's artistic director looks back on a quarter century of programming for the unique community that comprises the nation's capital.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:51PM[SHARE]Filling a major vacancy at the helm of the three-theatre L.A. company, Desai comes to the job after 7 years leading East West Players.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2023
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage's upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne's 'Manning' will get a full mainstage production.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:52PM[SHARE]LoConti Alcocer will transition to the newly-created role of ICTC advisory director next season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:39PM[SHARE]The commissions come with financial, dramaturgical, and logistical support for the development of original, full-length works.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:28PM[SHARE]The theatre's director of finance and operations will step into the leadership role on May 1.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:23PM[SHARE]The program is currently accepting applications from Chicagoland theatre artists of color, two of whom will receive grants of $10,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:17PM[SHARE]Badinger joined the theatre this February after over a decade with other arts organizations.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:10PM[SHARE]For Jennifer Chang's world-premiere 'The Devil Is a Lie,' Quantum Theatre occupies a Pittsburgh landmark associated with one of its most notorious industrialists.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2023
The former COO of Thompson Turner Productions will join artistic director Lynne Bolton and producing director/co-artistic director Michael Kopko in leading the summer theatre.
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