Friday, March 10, 2023
This year's festival will present two world-premiere productions along with five staged readings of new works.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:27PM[SHARE]A brief gig working with a company of disabled actors became a 4-year tour, and a writer learned to face his own hardships with grace and humor.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2023
A stage creature from a young age, she went on to pass on that love of theatre to several generations, including her own children.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Kaʻiukapu Baker, Claudia Brownlee, and Lia Wallfish were awarded this year's scholarship at a reception last month.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Monday, March 6, 2023
The move coincides with news that film studio A24 has purchased the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:48PM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2023
Three new works and a student reading will premiere at the St. Louis festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:46PM[SHARE]Even on a smaller scale, this year's Summit offered 4 playwrights the invaluable chance to write questions and stage the answers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2023
An actor and musician takes us behind the curtain and exposes some of the roadblocks to full inclusion.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:42PM[SHARE]March set the stage for political upheavals and peaceful exchanges between nations, a new dance company, a Chicana playwright, and the first female manager of a major U.S. theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]The new $60,000 commission from South Coast Repertory is also supported by Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2023
The playwright of 'Montag' and 'THUNDERBODIES' talks about insisting on sustainability, identifying as a writer, and the art of listening.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:59PM[SHARE]15 theatre artists and many interdisciplinary artists have been awarded fellowships.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:00PM[SHARE]Applications for the cohort are now open and will be accepted through April 30.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PM[SHARE]When the busy director succeeds Daniella Topol in the position as of May 1, he will be the first transgender leader of a major non-LGBTQ-specific theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The new program will expand performing arts opportunities for people with disabilities.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:07PM[SHARE]An analysis of data from 2021 shows a slight increase in jobs for BIPOC and non-binary union members, as well as wage gaps for older workers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
In 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home,' next playing at Kansas City Rep and Yale Rep, this busy playwright pens another piece inspired by history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:41PM[SHARE]Somehow the late, great director could work on my play---and give it exactly what it needed---even while occupied with countless other thoughts and projects.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2023
After 30 years of artistry in the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio will conclude operations at 154 Christopher Street on Aug. 31.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:44PM[SHARE]To mark the bicentennial of Liberia's founding by formerly enslaved and free Black Americans, a troupe from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation joined with Liberians to make theatre about i…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2023
The first preview of the acclaimed musical, about the lynching of a falsely accused Jewish American, was picketed by neo-Nazis.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:49PM[SHARE]Shelley was formerly the artistic director of the House Theatre of Chicago.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
This month Woodzick talks with the writer of 'Amani' about Black futures, expansive visions of gender, and how an archivist can be an activist.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Currently an associate artistic director at the theatre, he will succeed Janet Allen as of July 1.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:50PM[SHARE]The designer's friend, colleague, and mentee recalls him as a tirelessly busy, no-fuss genius who cherished real materials and was always ready with a brilliant drawing or model.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2023
The director of the world premiere of 'Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side' shares what unlocked this haunting play for him and the creative team.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:20PM[SHARE]Earlier this month, Terrence Spivey's play about the last slave ship, Clotilda, had its premiere in the Alabama community its survivors built.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:39PM[SHARE]How one historically white theatre company in Virginia has invested in reaching new audiences, and fostering writers, of color.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:23AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2023
Stephen McKinley Henderson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ntozake Shange will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwright's Sidewalk, and A.R.T./New York will be recognized for …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PM[SHARE]From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.
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