Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Anti-realist playwrights like Will Eno, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Young Jean Lee and Taylor Mac are taking the living-room drama and giving it an ironic spin
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Next season at the Oregon theatre will include world premieres from Sean Graney, Marisela Treviño Orta and Lisa Loomer, plus the completion of Shakespeare's canon for the fourth time.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:41PM[SHARE]In her new play, Young Jean Lee explores notions of privilege and identity by conducting an anthropological study of a very particular demographic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:38PM[SHARE]In addition to 'Treasure Island' by Mary Zimmerman, the Chicago ensemble will present works from Federico GarcÃa Lorca and Kevin Douglas.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:49PM[SHARE]The Boston theatre's 2015--16 season includes 'Peter and the Starcatcher,' 'Mr. Burns, a post-electric play,' a new play by Katori Hall and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:25PM[SHARE]Next season at the Massachusetts theatre will contain world premieres from Sean Daniels, Idris Goodwin and Lila Rose Kaplan.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:31PM[SHARE]The D.C. theatre's new season will include a world premiere by Martyna Majok, plus Suzan-Lori Parks's 'Father Comes Home From the Wars.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
Nina Raine's 'Tribes,' Richard Bean's 'One Man, Two Guvnors,' 'Evita' and 'Mary Poppins' will also be part of the Austin theatre's next season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:26PM[SHARE]The longtime actor never intended to be a director, but when his husband's musical needed a leader, he stepped up and found a new passion.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PM[SHARE]The California summer theatre's 2015 season will include "August: Osage County," "Green Grow the Lilacs" and an "As You Like It" set in the post-Civil War South.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:44PM[SHARE]The Rhode Island theatre's new season will include 'Julius Caesar,' Wendy Wasserstein, and the return of directors/choreographers Richard and Sharon Jenkins.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:33PM[SHARE]Cleveland Playhouse will present a mix of contemporary and classic plays during its 2015-16 season
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:12PM[SHARE]This week's glance at theatre across the country includes a touch of the spiritual, with God, the apocalypse and angels (in America), plus "Women Playing Hamlet."
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:46PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
World premiere plays by Paula Vogel, Jiehae Park and Jen Silverman will play in the New Haven theatre's 2015--16 season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:49PM[SHARE]The writer/performer explains his fascination with the vintage film actress who inspired his new play at Abrons Arts Center.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
For his play at Kitchen Dog Theater, Trull adapts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' for the selfie generation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:39PM[SHARE]In her first play for the Humana Festival, Jen Silverman pays a tribute to badass women in their 50s.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The 2015-16 season at the Chicago theatre will include a world premiere play about Hillary Clinton by Lucas Hnath, plus Sarah Gubbins takes on guns
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:52PM[SHARE]The Peninsula Players Theatre will feature productions of "A Real Lulu," "Lend Me a Tenor," "Dial M for Murder," "Outside Mullinger" and "Nunsense" during its 2015--16 season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:59PM[SHARE]the Honolulu-based company, which programs shows for young audiences, will present six new works in its 2015--16 season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:54PM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre's 2015-16 season will feature both classic drama and a fourth world premiere by Bruce Graham.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:48AM[SHARE]The co-artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company was one of the 23 leaders awarded the $100,000 fellowship.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:40AM[SHARE]Two groups united in the fight for gender parity in the theatre joined forces for a reading series, and they've only just begun.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The Rochester-based theatre will present 'Spamalot,' Benjamin Scheuer's 'The Lion' and Lisa Peterson and Lisa O'Hare's 'An Iliad.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:50PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
We say goodbye to a longtime magazine staffer, and talk seasons and musicals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:57PM[SHARE]But "I won't be retiring from the theatre field," he notes. He's been at the job for 33 years.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:58AM[SHARE]Caption this month's image and win a copy of Donald Margulies' "The Country House."
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:45AM[SHARE]In her play 'I Will Be Gone,' hauntings and grief are served with comedy and cupcakes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:47AM[SHARE]Color, perception, semantics and meaning are among the animating themes of this week's stage offerings.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
He's going back to his previous job at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, he says, because it's more artistic than administrative.
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