Thursday, February 26, 2015
The L.A. 99-Seat Theatre wars get a full airing with special guest Isaac Butler, and the editors have some recommendations.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:09PM[SHARE]In kicking off the Bard's 'Henry VI' trilogy and closing with a Caesarian double bill, the troupe puts its ensemble talent front and center.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Tommy Smith's new play at the Echo Theater Company moves along 3 tracks as it follows 3 great classical musicians and their chaotic love lives.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:58PM[SHARE]The college's Beinecke Library is proud to present an award to the Brooklyn-based playwright, one of three dramatists given the prestigious $150,000 prize.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:52PM[SHARE]The 20th festival plans developmental stagings of new plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jacklyn Backhaus.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Fantasy and mythology cross-breed with early American history in Nathan Allen's ambitious three-play series, not at last running in repertory.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:35AM[SHARE]Expanding its offerings to a second week, the Denver Center's annual new-play meeting gives featured writers more time to get their plays in shape---many of them for the mainstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:25AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
The small Chicago theatre, newly affiliated with Actors Equity, plans an ambitious slate of new plays by Madhuri Shekar, Charise Castro Smith and Callie Kimball.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:45PM[SHARE]Suzan-Lori Parks's Civil War-era epic receives the $100,000 prize for a play inspired by American history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:16PM[SHARE]The Irish playwright talks about the 'supernaturalism of the everyday,' and about structure and ghosts and Dickens.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:57PM[SHARE]New spins on old chestnuts, from the Greeks to the French golden age, mingle with contemporary tragedies, tete-a-tetes and a few tunes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:40AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2015
Classics by Inge and O'Neill share the stage with new plays by John Patrick Shanley, Alan Bennett and Terry Teachout.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:44PM[SHARE]Veteran composer John Kander talks and emerging talent Nick Blaemire, both with new musicals at Arlington's Signature Theatre this month, trade thoughts about the state of musical theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:48PM[SHARE]Morita, who plans to continue and amplify the theatre's focus on new and diverse voices, will be among the few women of color at the helm of a Bay Area theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:37PM[SHARE]The event offers $15-30 tickets to more than 100 productions at Chicago theatres, and experts and theatre leaders say it's putting more (and new) butts in seats.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:22PM[SHARE]New theatre plans two world premieres and several local premieres, including works by George Brant, Lauren Gunderson and Jonathan Tolins.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PM[SHARE]As the battle over L.A.'s non-remunerative 99-seat plan comes to a head, players on either side have radically different prognoses for the health of the city's sprawling theatre scene.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
The longtime Dallas theatre artist, who's worked with the Latino/Chicano theatre for a year, will join the leadership team with a.d. David Lozano.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:20PM[SHARE]Slate includes revivals of Sondheim's 'Sunday in the Park With George' and 'The Fantasticks,' as well as a new-works fest and world premieres by Michael Benjamin Washington and D. Tucker Smi…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PM[SHARE]The actress, now starring in 'End of the Rainbow' at International City Theatre, talks about learning to love Judy and why working in real estate wasn't right for her.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
The troupe's 87th summer series also includes Kate Baldwin starring in 'Bells Are Ringing' and the romance 'Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:46PM[SHARE]Also on tap at the Vermont theatre are regional premieres of 'Outside Mullingar' and 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:00PM[SHARE]The BP oil spill, the Tiananmen Square massacre and the legacy of the Black Power movement are among the inspirations for plays in the theatre's next season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:31PM[SHARE]The theatre's 2015--16 seasons spans three stages with a variety of musicals and dramas. World premieres include a new John Denver revue and Joanna Murray-Smith's 'American Song.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:21PM[SHARE]Artistic director Charles McMahon contributes a new work about the iconic author. Also on the roster are plays by Naomi Iizuka, Anna Ziegler and Glen Berger.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
To replace its longtime a.d., the venerable Minneapolis company taps an actor/director with a wide-ranging---you might even say 'diverse'---history in U.S. resident theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:45AM[SHARE]A small, smart venue in a small, smart Iowa town keeps its eye on national trends and tends toward new, often challenging plays.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:58AM[SHARE]A new history play set in the future holds its own alongside classics, as well as new works by Stoppard and Hare and a pair of ace musical revivals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:02AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
As their 1998 musical about a lynching in the South readies for a Lincoln Center concert, the composer/lyricist and playwright recall its origins and its import.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:29PM[SHARE]Love and luck, death and disease, real estate and unreal states are some of the themes of the week on U.S. stages.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
Hershey Felder, Ayad Akhtar and Stephen Schwartz are some of the names on schedule for the theatre's new season.
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