Friday, April 29, 2016
Danai Gurira, Martha Plimpton, Kate Whoriskey, and Mia Katigbak will be lauded at the awards ceremony.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:35PM[SHARE]After a national search, the Bay Area daily hires a young local writer who's shown herself to be both enthusiast and gadfly.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
A host of writers made their way to the Kansas small town to honor the late dramatist and support emerging playwrights.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:58PM[SHARE]South Coast Rep's venerable new-works fest offers a mellow, writer-focused sampling of fresh material.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
The season will feature works by Stephen Sondheim, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Matthew Lopez, Arthur Miller, and Suzan-Lori Parks.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:05PM[SHARE]Though the regions' names suggest they lack their own centers of gravity, culture helps forge a common identity in spite of war, plunder, and devastation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AM[SHARE]The arts incubator moves its main event to Morocco this year, aiming to create an Arabic/American playwright exchange.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:59AM[SHARE]Creating theatre in Jordan brings a sense of community and closure to refugees from Syria.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:58AM[SHARE]At the seventh annual festival of solo work, artists from the Middle East and Asia build on Eastern oral traditions to address present struggles.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:57AM[SHARE]Two choreographer/theoreticians, one Egyptian and one Palestinian, negotiate---and draw inspiration from---painful cultural divides.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:52AM[SHARE]Both Motti Lerner's 'After the War' and David Grossman's 'Falling Out of Time' engage with loss, but in wildly different ways.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:50AM[SHARE]A biennial Bay Area gathering has forged new links among artists identified with the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Actors Theatre of Louisville's 2016 new-play fest reflected a nation, and a field, rushing to the future, haunted by the past.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:49PM[SHARE]Wherever he worked, the late theatre executive got others to share his lifelong passion for the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:59PM[SHARE]The organization supports more than 100 TYA companies and aims to make their work more relevant to the field at large.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:04PM[SHARE]Jessica Holt, Laley Lippard, Jeff Liu, Madeline Sayet, and M. Graham Smith will be the second group to participate in the program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:41AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
The lineup will feature performance events and an international artist residency program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:37PM[SHARE]Zakreski will bring his experience in fundraising to the Maryland theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:06PM[SHARE]From ruling Versailles to walking the tightrope to hiking the Appalachian Trail, adventures abound on stages across the country this week.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
The playwright will create a new work for a future season at the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PM[SHARE]The slate includes plays by Sarah Burgess, Karen Hartman, Mike Bartlett, and Qui Nguyen, plus 'Here Lies Love.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:04PM[SHARE]The season will include a musical adaptation of 'Freaky Friday,' a world premiere, and a celebration of Shakespeare.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
Proving that the Bard can be revered with irreverence, the Folger Theatre presents a "lost" play that never was.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:44PM[SHARE]Artists and scholars gathered this week to hear and reconsider August Wilson's famous TCG speech about race and theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:05PM[SHARE]The lineup will feature Nathan Alan Davis, Shakespeare, and Mfonsio Udofia.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:03PM[SHARE]International and local companies converge at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for the quadricentennial of the playwright's death.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:59PM[SHARE]Playing Falstaff is a gift that keeps on giving, and not just because it's among the greatest roles in the canon.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:30PM[SHARE]New York Shakespeare Exchange, having run through the sonnets, expands its sights to the whole distracted globe.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PM[SHARE]In a new staging, 7 actors trade off parts, randomly selected each night from---what else?---Yorick's skull.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:28PM[SHARE]This week's guest Lue Douthit, director of Play On! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, discusses translating Shakespeare. Plus the editors tallk Humana.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:27PM[SHARE]From clown noses to wolf heads, America to Israel, 'Presenting Shakespeare' showcases how the Bard's work is sold around the world.
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