Monday, April 20, 2015
A commissioned Sherlock Holmes play and a new musical inspired by 9/11 are among the offerings in the 2015--16 season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PM[SHARE]'Between Riverside and Crazy' is the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Jordan Harrison and Suzan-Lori Parks are named as finalists.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:18PM[SHARE]This year, in addition to its usual performance offerings, the festival partnered with thinkEAST to get site-specific with an Austin neighborhood.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:58PM[SHARE]New-musical series presents works by Michael Elyanow, Harrison David Rivers and Peter Duchan.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:57PM[SHARE]Art and religion, music and murder, conspiracies and magic are among the subjects and themes strutting and fretting their hours on U.S. stages.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
Playwright/Pulitzer-finalist Rolin Jones talks about "These Paper Bullets!" his Beatles and Shakespeare-inspired musical, and his new theatre company New Neighborhood.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:46PM[SHARE]The slate includes a new academic drama by T.J. Brady and the U.S. professional premiere of Frank Wildhorn's 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:31PM[SHARE]The playwright's docutheatre piece, about an infamous case involving a young slave convicted for killing her master, takes top prize.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:52PM[SHARE]Whatever Shakespeare's intentions, the actor/writer argues, the role now offers a chance to reflect on race as it's lived now. But are we up for that?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
The slate ranges from Neil Simon to Julia, from a bio-drama about Justice William O. Douglas to 'Man of La Mancha.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:28PM[SHARE]The Houston theatre's series includes a 'Sweet Potato Queens,' a world premiere from Melissa Manchester and Rupert Holmes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PM[SHARE]Playwright Pearl Cleage, for whom tales of the Harlem Renaissance were childhood bedtime stories, reflects on her 1995 period piece.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
New $52-million effort will support and study the audience-development work of 26 arts organizations, including 8 theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:54PM[SHARE]Richard Engling's 'Afterlife Trilogy,' inspired by his late friend Fern Chertkow, includes two novels and a new play, 'Anna in the Afterlife.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:50PM[SHARE]The company's landmark recreation of the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical from 1941 sets out to recapture the show's original glamour.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:12PM[SHARE]New plays, musicals, puppetry pieces and cabaret shows will get an airing at the storied development center.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:38PM[SHARE]The inheritor of the defunct L.A. Weekly Awards honored the town's 99-seat-and-under theatres, which are feeling besieged at the moment.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The winners of the award for promising musical theatre lyricists and librettists receive a total of $100,000 each, payable over two years, with the honor.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:10PM[SHARE]Given by History Matters/Back to the Future, whose goal is to expand the male-dominated theatrical canon, the award recognizes students for their creative responses to classics by women.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:30PM[SHARE]Inspired equally by 'Star Wars' and Charles Ludlam, the Philly troupe's 'I Promised Myself to Live Faster' explores the intersection of tween sexual awakening and sci-fi fantasy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:02PM[SHARE]Plays by Frederick Stroppel, Aaron Posner, Mark St. Germain and David Robson are on the slate.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:35PM[SHARE]The bill includes plays by Gina Gionfriddo and Tom Stoppard, plus a world premiere by resident playwright Nate Eppler.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:27PM[SHARE]New readings by Matthew Paul Olmos, Octavio Solis, Marisela Treviño Orta and more to be presented at the Latina/o new works festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:02PM[SHARE]Retiring from a creative calling that never really paid my bills has been much harder than I'd imagined---but it seems to have already happened anyway.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:54AM[SHARE]Eleven fellows will participate in the program, which encompasses four different areas of study.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:05AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
Political corruption bleeds into private lives as boundaries are breached in performances at Hungary's dunaPart3 showcase. (Part 2 of 2)
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:27PM[SHARE]The Living Theatre cofounder embodied 'beautiful, nonviolent anarchist revolution' in her life and her art.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:26PM[SHARE]The slate includes plays by Ayad Akhtar, Ken Ludwig, Ike Holter, Laura Eason and Lucas Hnath.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:13PM[SHARE]Linda Levy will leave the theatre advocacy and awards organization to focus on her recovery from spinal surgery.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
American Theater Company's docutheatre piece 'The Project(s)' takes up residence at the intersection of poverty, race and real estate.
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