Thursday, April 30, 2015
The director/playwright and longtime leader of McCarter Theatre will receive the award at a ceremony on May 16.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:34PM[SHARE]The lineup includes a world premiere, a regional premiere and limited engagements alongside Shakespearean fare.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:42PM[SHARE]The season, partly selected by incoming artistic director Joseph Haj, is big on revivals, as well as area premieres of David Greig's 'The Events' and Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The Creative Capital-administered grants go to 37 new live-arts projects, ranging from jazz to opera to performance art.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:37PM[SHARE]Dark comedies and dramas fill the theatre's next season, by authors including James Graham, Liz Duffy Adams, David Gieselman and Enda Walsh.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:24PM[SHARE]The writer of 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' took actors Arian Moayed and Omar Metwally on a pilgrimage to the site of his newest play.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:50PM[SHARE]The roster includes shows by Shaw, Kaufman & Ferber and Bill Cain, along with the usual Shakespeare offerings.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:30PM[SHARE]Audiences hungry for more than the usual fare are having their culinary and theatrical palates sated by the city's nouveau dinner theatre offerings.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:30PM[SHARE]The 2015-16 season includes a world-premiere, an Orange-County premiere, a stage adaptation and classic musicals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:49PM[SHARE]Molly Rice's peripatetic 'Saints Tour' shows audiences new facets of their neighborhoods. Next stop: Braddock, Pa., in a collaboration with Bricolage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:31PM[SHARE]The slate includes shows by Noel Coward, Frank Loesser and Rodgers and Hart, as well as a new sequel to 'A Christmas Carol' starring Jason Graae.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:46PM[SHARE]Formative collaborative experiences in Brooklyn and Berlin inform this couple's work with the Detroit-based company A Host of People.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:15PM[SHARE]The mainstage will feature two comedy productions and a drama, while the cabaret series will take on all music genres in three shows.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:43PM[SHARE]The comedy theatre will stage two new plays and continue its ongoing political satire, 'This Is the Week That Is.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:24PM[SHARE]The roster includes three new plays by ensemble members about dating, dragons and disasters.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:47PM[SHARE]Recasting American history with non-white actors not only makes 'Hamilton' feel immediate, alive. It's also a reminder that the story is still being written with each retelling.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:20PM[SHARE]The theatre's longtime leader will leave at the end of September to pursue a doctorate in theatre arts.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:52AM[SHARE]The 'Grimm' star can't stay away from the stage for long, whether in sunny L.A. or rainy Portland.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:42AM[SHARE]The author of 'Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop' will receive the Playwright Masters Award from the fest, which will present 17 new works by 18 writers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The company's founding artistic director will step down, handing the reigns to longtime ensemble member Dwayne Hartford.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:27PM[SHARE]The Chicago theatre for young audiences season will include seven plays, including a world premiere by Nambi E. Kelley about the Civil Rights Movement.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:26PM[SHARE]The Portland theatre's bill next season will include Teresa Rebeck, Heidi Schreck and Terrence McNally; plus a world premiere musical set in Cuba, featuring the music of Tiempo Libre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:51PM[SHARE]New plays by Yuseff El Guindi, John Guare, Beth Henley, Marcus Gardley, Rebecca Gilman, Elizabeth Egloff, Lauren Gunderson and Aaron Loeb headline the theatre's second 5A Season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:46PM[SHARE]The Latino theatre company's season will include world premieres by Olga Sanchez, Karen ZacarÃas and Rebecca Martinez.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:42PM[SHARE]Most of today's Tony-nominated shows got their start on non-commercial stages, either in the U.S. or abroad.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:28AM[SHARE]New plays by Eliza Clark, Qui Nguyen, Sandra Tsing Loh and Bekah Brunstetter are on the slate, as is a return of Beth Henley's Western tale 'Abundance,' which bowed at SCR in 1989.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:23AM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS: The Playwrights' Center has announced its 2015–16 Jerome Fellows, its McKnight Fellows in Playwriting and the recipient of its McKnight National Residency and …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:34PM[SHARE]New productions of 'Rent,' 'Dreamgirls' and 'The Little Mermaid' vie with a newly constructed musical, 'Empire.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]Valdez leaves after eight years shoring up the ensemble advocacy organization.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:29PM[SHARE]Los Angeles is still getting a good deal, AEA's executive director insists, if people would only take the time to study its new proposals for the city's small theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:07PM[SHARE]Couples and coupling are a recurring theme this week, but then so are the social forces that can tear them asunder.
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