Monday, April 6, 2015
Five emerging directors from across the United States were selected from more than 350 applicants to participate in the first-ever National Directors Fellowship.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:47PM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
Arkansas Repertory Theatre and Indiana Repertory Theatre released statements this week opposing RFRAs in their state.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:01PM[SHARE]There's no 'art for art's sake' at this storied River City theatre, which has a rich history and keeps its focus on local artists and audiences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:27PM[SHARE]The bimonthly magazine plans to go online-only following the publication of its May/June issue.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:54PM[SHARE]JT Rogers, Eric Pfeffinger, Ellen Struve and David J. Jacobi will join Philadelphia-based playwrights Genne Murphy and James Ijames at summer new-play gathering.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:31PM[SHARE]Highs and lows, from the depths of human depravity to the heights of ecstatic expression, and all points in between, characterize the theatrical week.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:04PM[SHARE]The design team of 'Airline Highway' by Lisa D'Amour, currently on Broadway, took a real-life New Orleans motel and put it onstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:10AM[SHARE]Fresh critical insight on Chekhov and a new anti-realism alternate with in-depth interviews with Roche Schulfer and the creators of 'Fun Home.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:09AM[SHARE]Looking back at how far the theatre field has come in the last half century inspires us to move forward and take the next steps together.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:57AM[SHARE]Rachel Rockwell and Michael Mahler's new version takes inspiration from Joan Jett, Queen and the Beatles as much as from Lewis Carroll.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
Sara Bareilles, Dave Malloy, Mark Rylance, Eve Ensler, the TEAM and Headlong Theatre are among the artists bringing work to the Boston-area theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:56PM[SHARE]The California theatre plans a new musical by Kirsten Guenther, Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz, plus plays by Josefina Lopez, Ricardo Khan and Harvey Fierstein.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:16PM[SHARE]World-premiere laffers by Ken Ludwig and Sharyn Rothstein are on the Jersey theatre's schedule, along with a staging of Tennessee Williams's film 'Baby Doll.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:07PM[SHARE]The couple honor theatrical history with a retrospective of great actors---Eleanor Duse, Sarah Siddons, Edwin Booth---and their greatest roles.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:15PM[SHARE]Named after (and financed by) playwright A.R. Gurney, a Flea mainstay, the new award is annual gift of $100,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:07PM[SHARE]The intimate Berkeley theatre's slate includes works by Sarah Treem, Marisa Wegrzyn, Mark Jackson, Amy Freed and Athol Fugard.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:43PM[SHARE]Winners of the $275,000 honor from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation include Paul S. Flores, Shawn Sides, Cynthia Hopkins, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and Steven Sapp.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
A coproduction of ZACH Theatre and Teatro Vivo, Rupert Reyes's new take on the classic features found-object puppetry and forefronts themes of empowerment.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:51PM[SHARE]As producers at LaMama learned with their triple 'Tempest' series, arranging for foreign artists to perform on U.S. soil can be a stormy process.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:04PM[SHARE]From a shooting at a theatre to the founding of one, from government crackdowns to government funds, a look back at previous Aprils in the American theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:39PM[SHARE]Works by Idris Goodwin and Mia Chung, as well as a holiday favorite and 'Peter and the Starcatcher,' are on the slate.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:34PM[SHARE]When the sitcom's rights holders came and knocked on his door, the playwright took legal action. Now a New York district court judge has ruled in his favor.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:56PM[SHARE]Live performances by Radiohole, Andrew Schneider and Joseph Silovsky alternate with a series of vintage Wooster Group performance films.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:13PM[SHARE]The South Dakota native will succeed founder Bain Boehlke beginning this summer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:51AM[SHARE]Dozens of artists and companies will be part of the 2-month tribute to female playwrights.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:11AM[SHARE]Features will include whimsical hashtags and magazine-style analysis, just shorter.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Tracy Liz Miller and Brenda Jean Foley of the Bridge Initiative talk about achieving gender parity in Arizona, plus more season announcements and what you should read in the April 2015 issue…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:22PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Bill Bordy gifts LA Stage Alliance with five years of funding to support a return of its online performing-arts magazine.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:45PM[SHARE]Theatremakers joined students at the University of the Arts for theatricalized concert versions of sounded the limits of the musical theatre form.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:20PM[SHARE]Next season at the Boston theatre will include new works by Winnie Holzman, Jeffrey Hatcher, Gina Gionfriddo and Craig Lucas. Oh, and Nick Offerman.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:53PM[SHARE]Somehow a Russian doctor who died in 1904 was able to pre-diagnose our 21st-century ways of not connecting, of spending our lives alone together.
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