Monday, April 15, 2024
From its casting to its staging, the acclaimed new Broadway revival of the iconic rock musical misses opportunities to engage with, and subvert, harmful tropes around Deafness and disability.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:01PM[SHARE]A sweet, sane soul who wrote hilarious, deranged, profoundly human plays, he showed us all how to dance on the funny/serious tightrope.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Heidi Schreck adaptations of 'An Enemy of the People' and 'Uncle Vanya' on Broadway, Amy Herzog and Heidi Schreck
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Deborah Zoe Laufer's new play, now kicking off its rolling world premiere at Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre, imagines an eerily plausible fascist future.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:04PM[SHARE]The 3 writers in Second Stage's Judith Champion Reading Series---Sarah Mantell, D.A. Mindell, and Kaela Mei-Shin Garvin---reflect on their plays and their process.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:05AM[SHARE]Applications for the new program, designed to mentor early-career and aspiring critics in the region, are now open through July 15.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2024
In Know Theatre's new show, Cloud Cult's 2010 concept album becomes an interstellar family drama set somewhere between Ohio and Proxima Centauri.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:44PM[SHARE]Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's world premiere play about a Black political dynasty is the latest in Steppenwolf's lineage of explosive work crafted around their acting ensemble.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2024
Participants gathered to preserve the legacy and imagine the future of Latinx Theatre at the LTC's convening in Boston last month.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2024
April recalls the Hyers sisters, a prolific lyricist, a federal musical revue, a busy book writer, an August Wilson premiere, and an Anna Deavere Smith classic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:20PM[SHARE]Syracuse Stage's managing director, who began her theatre career in the Midwest, will take her place this summer next to CTC's new artistic director, Rick Dildine.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2024
A conversation about censorship in high school theatre programs, and how students, teachers, and parents can push back.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:30PM[SHARE]This month Brian talks to playwright Mashuq Mushtaq Deen about building a writing career, pushing audiences out of their comfort zone, and finding his place in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:15PM[SHARE]The flagship theatre memorably mounted Shakespeare's popular history plays in 1990, and now they're back for another repertory rotation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:09PM[SHARE]2 works now in the public domain will be joined in a new 'pop opera hybrid' version.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:39AM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2024
A tenor known for romantic leads, the actor-singer tackles the iconic demon barber with only a slight key change and an emphasis on the humanity as much as the horror.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:27AM[SHARE]The traveling workshop series for local TNB2S+ artists begins with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in May and Steppenwolf Theatre in July.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2024
Even with arts journalism jobs in decline, emerging theatre critics keep training and finding new outlets for their voices.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Efforts like Fat Theatre Project and Broadway Bods are fighting for more opportunities for performers who identify as fat and to change the way they're seen onstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:03PM[SHARE]From conservatories to MFAs to youth ensembles, the best training to reflect human behavior onstage can take as many forms as life itself.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:19PM[SHARE]Diversifying design training and hiring, and an effort to fund plays about science.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:36AM[SHARE]The diversification of theatre design starts"but doesn't end"with training.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2024
The playwright of 'Oslo' and the new 'Corruption' likes to wrestle in public with the things that trouble him and our politics.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2024
This month, theatres are still making tough programming choices as they look hopefully toward growing into the future, plus thoughts from Willow James and Tiffany Keane Schaefer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PM[SHARE]Resident companies at the NYC venue will now pay no rent when they stage work there.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:41PM[SHARE]In our Winter issue, we look at training that doesn't simply instruct young artists in the ways of the world but aims to empower them to change it.
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