Monday, April 27, 2015
Couples and coupling are a recurring theme this week, but then so are the social forces that can tear them asunder.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:38AM[SHARE]Two new one-woman plays dramatize the unique stress and ethical pitfalls of fighting in the Chair Force.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
The New York theatre honors recognize a resident theatre leader as it enters its 100th year.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:54PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway company joins the ranks of nonprofits with Broadway houses, with a mission to produce living American writers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:38PM[SHARE]In addition to stagings of 'Rear Window' and 'Anastasia,' the theatre will produce a Christopher Shinn world premiere.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:19PM[SHARE]The new-work development institute's slate ranging from interplanetary voyages to refugee camps, and many points between.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:50PM[SHARE]Two new books explore the content, and context, of the great composer/conductor's divided musical character.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Far from detached or academic, the work on offer at the Santiago a Mil festival showed theatremakers in the thick of politics, race and culture.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:49PM[SHARE]The festival founder talks about keeping theatre vital in a country recovering from dictatorship and facing new challenges.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PM[SHARE]Some companies that have made U.S./Mexico theatrical exchanges central to their work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PM[SHARE]My play about the 1915 genocide, seen and developed on U.S. stages, is now being presented in the language and home of my ancestors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:23PM[SHARE]Stateside companies form collaborations with theatres based in Mexico, and vice versa, creating a fertile dynamic for art and change.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:18PM[SHARE]Along with plays by Sarah Ruhl, August Wilson, Howard Brenton, Ayad Akhtar and Elizabeth Irwin, MTC will premiere Rachel Bonds's 'The Swimmers.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:59PM[SHARE]With the long-awaited normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, theatre artists may be uniquely poised to make the most of the new climate of exchange.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:35PM[SHARE]Also offered will be 'Mother Courage' starring Tonya Pinkins and the seldom-seen 'Nathan the Wise' starring F. Murray Abraham.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
We share more than colonial history with Central and South America; we also share theatrical traditions. But it can a little re-exploration to map them.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:57PM[SHARE]The Kansas City theatre season will include a world premiere from William Missouri Downs, an NNPN rolling world premiere by Hilary Bettis and 'Heathers the Musical.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:17PM[SHARE]Promoted from within the publisher's literary department, the Seattle-bred manager will handle acquisitions and curation of its catalogue.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:12PM[SHARE]The former Foundry Theatre managing producer will join Moisés Kaufman's devised-theatre troupe starting in May.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:41PM[SHARE]As they change out managing directors, the theatre plans stage versions of books by Jane Austen and Rona Jaffe, as well as Orson Welles's take on 'Moby-Dick.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:04PM[SHARE]Next season at the theatre will include shows from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Jason Robert Brown, Mitch Albom and a world premiere from Travis G. Baker.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:55AM[SHARE]After a referendum vote against its previous proposals, Equity offers new options and loopholes, but retains minimum-wage demand for small-theatre work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
L.A.'s Lauren Michelle took the first prize in the international theatre singing competition, which doled out a record number of prizes and money to young performing talents.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:41PM[SHARE]The slate ranges from Feydeau to Pirandello, Shakespeare to Shaw, plus Miller and a new adaptation of Anouilh's 'Antigone.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:31PM[SHARE]A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre's annual new-play gathering.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:50PM[SHARE]The Off-Broadway theatre's season will also include new plays from Colman Domingo and Paula Vogel.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:15PM[SHARE]The playwright was this year's honoree at the annual festival in Independence, which featured a generous sampling of his work, and Jen Silverman was the New Voices Award winner.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:08AM[SHARE]Art or social service? That's a false choice for this small but committed L.A. theatre, where theatrical excellence and community service are inextricably intertwined.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:57AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
The season will also include Lawrence Wright's 'Camp David,' a world premiere play by Anna Ziegler, and new plays by Kimber Lee and Nick Payne.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:01PM[SHARE]Alongside popular shows by Shakespeare, Coward, Ibsen and Garson Kanin is a seldom-seen melodrama by David Belasco.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:35PM[SHARE]A commissioned Sherlock Holmes play and a new musical inspired by 9/11 are among the offerings in the 2015--16 season.
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