Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Founded by a trio of female directors, Motor City's newest theatre company plans to produce new plays that reflect the city's own story of struggle and rebirth.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:44PM[SHARE]The former artistic director of Chautauqua Theatre Company will take the reigns of the North Carolina repertory company in 2016.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:09PM[SHARE]Included in this year's lineup are a collaborative concert between humans and computers, an adaptation of Egyptian funerary rites, and a live radio show.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:14PM[SHARE]Adriana Baer plans to depart from her position at the Portland--based theatre by the end of 2015.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:37AM[SHARE]The Atlanta theatre will use a year of renovations at the Woodruff Arts Center to mount off-site productions---and do some audience-building in the process.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The slate includes productions of new and classic works from the likes of Royal Shakespeare Company, Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:42PM[SHARE]Virginia Repertory Theatre, 5th Wall Theatre, and TheatreLAB were among those rewarded at the Circle's 8th Annual Awards Ceremony.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:17PM[SHARE]The Chicago-area theatre's new lineup boasts jukebox musicals and adaptations of film and television classics.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:12PM[SHARE]The paper of record dispenses with design credits, while 'Futurity' imagines a new musical theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:28PM[SHARE]Chicago's Red Theater is translating Shakespeare for its new show: They're putting his verse into American Sign Language.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:59PM[SHARE]American musicals have often returned to Asian themes and settings---as theatrical tourists. 'Allegiance' starts closer to home.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2015
From a car-driven opera in L.A. to a roller coaster musical in Chicago, from education projects to exciting turnovers, fall is busting out all over.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:01PM[SHARE]Adapted from T.C. Boyle's 1995 novel, Matthew Spangler's play tracks two couples united and divided by immigration.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:28PM[SHARE]In the Goodman's production of August Wilson's classic, the creative team wrapped a coal-dusted city around a struggling diner.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:31PM[SHARE]Two books celebrate an undersung directorial genius, while two others look at a path-finding lyricist and a seminal show.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:27PM[SHARE]This spooktacular edition surveys a gamut of ghoulish entertainments, featuring everything from real-life killers to vampires to clowns.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:59AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
Steve Martin, Jane Austen, and Shakespeare headline next season at The Old Globe.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:46PM[SHARE]The Minnesota company builds community around dramatists with its annual 10-day festival devoted to developing new work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:32PM[SHARE]Theatres across the nation are producing Steve Yockey's upbeat 'Blackberry Winter,' but in his hometown it's paired with a play in a more troubled vein.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:16AM[SHARE]In a life spanning a century of artistic adventure, trans-Atlantic exchange, and behind-the-scenes machinations, Seawell's greatest legacy was transforming downtown Denver.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
This week representatives from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition school American Theatre editors on better ways to talk about cultural appropriation and yellowface, and offer ti…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:24PM[SHARE]Part church service, part confessional, part standup routine, the playwright/performer's new show mines intestinal distress for laughs and discomfort.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:54PM[SHARE]The Northern California arts center will receive three years of financial assistance for a program of rural-community engagement.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:33PM[SHARE]The ASL/spoken English adaptation of Duncan Sheik's 2007 musical is congratulated for its contributions to the disabled community in New York.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Copy & waste and English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center address gentrification with a little help from Marty McFly.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:10PM[SHARE]Writing a play about ancestors consumed by an atrocity became an unexpected passport to a homecoming.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:36PM[SHARE]In the struggle to make work on tiny budgets, small theatres in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles may have more in common than not.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The artistry of Deaf and disabled theatre workers has been amply demonstrated. Why aren't they centerstage more regularly?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:50AM[SHARE]If Deaf stories and actors are having a moment, from 'Spring Awakening' to 'Tribes,' it's only because the rest of the world is finally discovering a well-established theatrical tradition.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:45AM[SHARE]Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
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