Friday, February 17, 2023
From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Both artists will use the award, intended to highlight veteran artists no longer in the limelight, to continue writing.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:43PM[SHARE]His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, 'Dark Disabled Stories,' is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disab…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Proposed drag bans aren't really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren't just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods---they're also attacking an art a…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:40PM[SHARE]Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:06PM[SHARE]With Eugene Lee, Trinity Rep's founder leader built a true resident theatre and forged a distinct and visceral aesthetic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:05PM[SHARE]At Trinity Rep, Hall built a questing, adventurous theatre and brought a company of actors, and Providence audiences, along with him.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:04PM[SHARE]Kaas-Lentz will succeed Cynthia Fuhrman in the role, after having served as PCS's interim managing director since March 2022.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:10PM[SHARE]The program will accept applications from early-career journalists and critics of color until Tuesday, March 7 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:40AM[SHARE]The recipients, who were announced and awarded at an in-person ceremony last night at Lincoln Center, will each receive $550,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2023
Diaz's play 'Things With Friends' will be staged at the 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:14AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
The open membership policy, which has sharply increased the percentage of union members of color since 2021, will mean a phase-out of the Equity Membership Candidate program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:49PM[SHARE]The winner will be named at the award presentation and 45th anniversary celebration on March 27 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:24PM[SHARE]The unique partnership also announced grants for new works at 2 New England theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:38PM[SHARE]Succeeding the theatre's founding artistic director, he will have led the company through nearly 17 years and several cycles of community-collaborative shows.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:22AM[SHARE]The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 prize and commemorative trophy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:14AM[SHARE]The administrators will work in a three-pronged model of shared leadership.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2023
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]Slated for May, this year's gathering will feature performances, speeches, training, networking, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 7, 2023
7 new playwrights will be in residence with the New York-based Asian American and Pacific Islander theatre company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:28PM[SHARE]Focusing on the digital accessibility of performing arts, the project is being coordinated by researcher and dramaturg Magda Romanska.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2023
February recalls the premieres of 2 groundbreaking Black musicals on Broadway, the contentious beginnings of English theatre in the Big Easy, and a little company that could in Pennsylvania.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:37PM[SHARE]Lisa Loomer's play about the historic decision arrives at 2 theatres in a state that's once again on the front lines of the reproductive rights battle.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2023
The inaugural Incubator program members include 9 organizations and 2 artists.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:35PM[SHARE]The festival will present BCF @ CSUEB at the Cal State East Bay University Theater on Feb. 11 and New Voices/New Works at Dance Mission Theater on Feb. 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:31PM[SHARE]The award comes with a $10,000 prize and an accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission for a new play, to be read at the festival this summer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2023
She joins Classic Stage Company after years as managing director of the new-play-focused Page 73.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:57AM[SHARE]A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:12AM[SHARE]Lorraine Hansberry's long-awaited sophomore effort was greeted coolly, even confusedly, in 1964, but ambivalence---about art, activism, and their fraught intersection---has always been in th…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:10AM[SHARE]For her first stage role in a while, the 'Mrs. Maisel' actor is ready to embrace the role of another imperfect but lovable woman performer in a rocky marriage.
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