Monday, January 26, 2015
This week's characters onstage include kings, princes, heiresses and saints, as well as composers, actors, explorers---and some everyday folks.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2015
This year, dozens of shows in a few weeks pushed boundaries and pointed in invigorating new directions for performance and performers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:32PM[SHARE]Ecuadorian theatre broke away from European conventions in the 1960s. Today's artists are still venturing outside the theatre walls to engage audiences directly.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:51PM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2015
The Connecticut musical theatre company will premiere four new musicals in its 2015 season, and its roster of artists include Kathleen Marshall, Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:03PM[SHARE]Joseph has won the 2015 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award for his play 'Guards at the Taj,' premiering at Atlantic Theater Company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2015
The co-creator of the mad pirates of "Jollyship" is writing plays for people now, but he's still unleashing comic chaos.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:33PM[SHARE]The Chicago-based director will work as an associate at the theatre under its Michael Maggio directing fellowship program for early career directors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PM[SHARE]Another week, another series of far-ranging talks about the theatre and its makers from across the nation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:32PM[SHARE]New work from Elizabeth Swados, Erin Courtney, Cory Finley and Sam Marks are slated for the downtown NYC mainstay.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:05PM[SHARE]New York will finally get to see some acclaimed and socially relevant new plays that have received productions and acclaim elsewhere.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:40PM[SHARE]The playwrights of 'The World of Extreme Happiness' and 'Caught' talk about their complicated relationship to their heritage and the nuances of being Hapa.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Works by Lynn Nottage and Amy Herzog alternate with Monty Python, Alfred Hitchcock and Lee Hall.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:33PM[SHARE]The longtime artistic associate of the NYC avant-garde collective will now co-lead the company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:30PM[SHARE]She's tackled nearly every kind of role at every kind of theatre, and this purple-haired local treasure shows few signs of skipping town or slowing down.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:16PM[SHARE]In response to the president's speech, a new U.S. arts-and-culture agency issues a call for stories and poems as part of a plan create new civic rituals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The Los Angeles-based classical collective has a new leader with nonprofit experience.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:45PM[SHARE]The former founding artistic director of California's Capital Stage Company is tapped to lead the South Florida theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:47PM[SHARE]The San Diego theatre's 2015-'16 season has West Coast premieres and a rotating rep. Also this season: a new associate artistic director, Rob Lutfy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:39PM[SHARE]The backstage-industry nonprofit recognizes Eyring's legacy of leadership in the field as well as at Theatre Communications Group.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:59AM[SHARE]While his play about gangster clowns surfs the immersive-theatre wave, the well-known blogging playwright has other tricks up his sleeve.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:32AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Katori Hall's play, about an imaginary encounter at the Lorraine Hotel on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, has been among the most-performed plays on American stages in the…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:29AM[SHARE]From the fanciful to the profound, and all points in between---including the fanciful and profound, i.e., Gertrude Stein---this week onstage boast as wide a range of authors, genres and thea…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
A real-life controversy about a children's book from 1959 is the basis for a new play with freshly relevant themes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PM[SHARE]The author of 'The Mountaintop' talks about the inspiration and research for her new play, based on a true story from Rwanda.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:21PM[SHARE]Festivals in New York, story slams in Chicago, theme parks in SoCal---call it a tricoastal edition.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:20PM[SHARE]The longtime artistic director will step down in August after 15 years at the helm of one of California's largest Shakespeare theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:55PM[SHARE]How a bi-national production of 'Antigone' took shape in remote Brzezinka, where Grotowkski's animating spirit still holds sway.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:19PM[SHARE]The ensemble of Cutting Ball's 'Antigone' ranged widely in age and experience, but their intensive work in Brzezinka fused them into an ensemble.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:19PM[SHARE]Mounting and touring an acclaimed new work about the Armenian genocide, 'Armine, Sister,' isn't even the biggest controversy swirling around the Polish director.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:19PM[SHARE]Caption this image and win Richard Nelson's "Apple Family Plays" anthology!
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
Three new reports with data from 2012 show how much, and why, Americans participate in cultural activities. One takeaway: Get 'em while they're young.
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