Thursday, April 15, 2021
Director/playwright Kareem Fahmy has created an open-source spreadsheet to match BIPOC directors with theatres and playwrights.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:14PM[SHARE]Cofield will begin a 3-year appointment in September, succeeding previous chair Mark Wing-Davey and interim chair Janet Zarish.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:40PM[SHARE]The artistic director of the Twin Cities' Penumbra reflects on an outrageous paradox: that Black vulnerability could exculpate white violence.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Sylvia Khoury, Jordan E. Cooper, and Donnetta Lavinia Grays will each receive a $50,000 prize.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:18PM[SHARE]At Seattle's Red Eagle Soaring, Sayet and Moses will share artistic director duties, modeling and shaping a decolonized process to better serve Native youth.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:01PM[SHARE]An experienced producer and arts administrator, she'll replace Buzz Ward, who's retiring after 29 years in the post.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 13, 2021
After 11 years helping Harvard's resident theatre mount many works that went to Broadway, she'll return to her native London.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:39PM[SHARE]The season features 3 world premieres and a combination of indoor and outdoor productions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:34PM[SHARE]Her 'Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)' imagines a protected Black state founded after a second Civil War.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:13PM[SHARE]The experienced leader and teacher will also serve as resident director at Yale Rep for a five-year term.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:27AM[SHARE]A celebration of Arab American Heritage Month, from Khalil Gibran to the opening of Leila Buck's 'Hkeelee (Talk to Me).'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:42AM[SHARE]If you haven't committed to dismantling racism and ending harassment, don't rush to reopen your doors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 12, 2021
The first woman in the role, she succeeds Doug Wright and is joined by a slate of board officers including Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kristoffer Diaz, and Christine Toy Johnson.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:58PM[SHARE]'An Almost Holy Picture' will replace 'Sense and Sensibility' and the theatre will return to in-person performances in August.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:37PM[SHARE]Suttles, an experienced arts leader with fundraising and strategic planning background, joined the Bay Area company last week.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:05PM[SHARE]This year's theatre fellows include L. M. Bogad, Rebecca Schneider, Mike Lew, Kaneza Schaal, and Sarah Cameron Sunde.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:36PM[SHARE]Two new books about men whose charmed and eventful lives were as much acts of creation as the plays and films they produced.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:51PM[SHARE]Friday, April 9, 2021
With a new leader and new owners, the Chicago comedy staple has expanded its digital reach while reorienting for the future and readying a live return.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 8, 2021
New memoirs by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes and David Adjmi describe their arduous journeys to find themselves, as well as the communities that shaped them.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:57PM[SHARE]Muse joins the company in the newly created position of director of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA).
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:13PM[SHARE]The 5-show season will feature the final play of August Wilson's Century Cycle and a world premiere from Jeffrey Binder.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:06PM[SHARE]24 disabled artists worked with collaborating mentors over the past few weeks, and the results of their work go online today.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 7, 2021
7 Asian American theatre leaders reflect on the rise in both hate crimes and open racism, how they've responded, and the support they would like to see.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:20PM[SHARE]Her play 'cullud wattah' is honored, with Kimber Lee's 'The Water Palace' and Ife Olujobi's 'Jordans' also specially commended.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:14PM[SHARE]The racist stereotypes and erasure perpetuated on white-dominated U.S. stages have real-world consequences outside the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:54PM[SHARE]Systemic issues and a failure of leadership were behind the shuttering of the arts service org. Will BIPOC theatres and leaders step in to create something new?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:34PM[SHARE]The artists will offer counsel and artistic insight to the Globe's leadership, participating in multiple steps of the selection and production process.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:01PM[SHARE]The two-tiered program is aimed at stabilizing new productions originating on small and mid-size stages in Los Angeles.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 6, 2021
How Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company crowdsourced a docutheatre piece on how a year of COVID, racist violence and protest, and political division felt in their state.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:24PM[SHARE]The season includes a return to live theatre outdoors at the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano.
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