Friday, November 21, 2014
How a troupe of L.A.-based improvisers reawakened one critic's taste for the possibilities of live theatre.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 03:04PM[SHARE]The distance from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the Improvised Shakespeare may not be as far as you think.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 03:02PM[SHARE]This week's guest is TCG board president Diane Rodriguez, who discusses the recent TCG board meetings, the Latino theatre movement and the L.A. 99-seat plan. Plus, the editors preview our De…
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 02:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
A director whose stage career spanned improv, tragedy, even musicals, as well as some very fine film adaptations of plays.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:56PM[SHARE]When the nation's most powerful newspaper chooses to review new plays in early productions outside New York, is that helping or hurting the field?
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 12:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Two new plays in two different cities raise new questions about shadowy government plots of the 1980s. Coincidence?
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:16PM[SHARE]The small Phoenix theatre will be recognized by the city's mayor in a celebration on Friday.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 03:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The composer's new hybrid work takes on myths and truths of Los Angeles, as well as one of his recurring subjects: the musical-theatre form itself.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:28PM[SHARE]The South Coast Rep founding member talks about what keeps him coming back for more humbug.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 04:45PM[SHARE]Executive director of the Providence company will start a new job with the same title in Connecticut next year.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 02:21PM[SHARE]Honored with the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award this week, the New York-based writer talks about his inspirations, his process and his memorable titles.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 12:46PM[SHARE]An historic gathering of Latino/a theatremakers put the focus firmly on the work and let the politics---including the identity politics---emerge, or not, from there.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 09:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
Clubbed Thumb is the first beneficiary of Playwrights's new initiative, which comes with free office, rehearsal and performance space.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:50PM[SHARE]Amid the usual early trickle of holiday shows both strange and familiar are more intense fare: plays tackling meaty historical themes, some sweeping musicals, and piercing, intimate drama…
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 07:16AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
Original interviews of Eddie Dowling gives a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of the original production of "The Glass Menagerie" as the show is revived on Broadway.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:51PM[SHARE]The managing director at the Cincinnati theatre will step down next month; her duties will be shared among existing staff.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 04:39PM[SHARE]There's a staff switch at the Working Theater as B.J. Evans steps in as managing director and Nicholas Betito steps out from being general manager.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 03:35PM[SHARE]Artistic directors Jenny Avery and Jason Loewith reflect on what made the Evanston theatre special, and why it ended this week.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
The experimental Chicago ensemble hires a fundraising and community partnership leader.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:16PM[SHARE]From the TBA Awards to Chicago's literary slam WRITE Club, this week's theatre podcasts hit close to home.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 03:06PM[SHARE]Theatre Communications Group's star-studded event celebrated artists and organizations who've advanced the art and practice of theatre.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 02:35PM[SHARE]The outgoing artistic director of the Off-Off-Broadway Flea Theater talks about his plans for the transition, and what he's looking for in a new leader.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
A lap dance from a peanut-butter-covered werewolf? A hip-hop Dickens intervention? No wonder this comedy storefront attracts a young, rowdy ATL audience.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 04:38PM[SHARE]TBA spreads the love with its first awards show, doling out a total of 69 awards in four categories to Bay Area theatres and artists.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 03:55PM[SHARE]A producer with experience at several New York indie theatres, most recently with Ping Chong + Company, joins NY's premier investigative-theatre troupe.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 02:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Morisseau's "Skeleton Crew" took the Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, and Martyna Majok won the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize for "Ironbound."
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 05:04PM[SHARE]The Atlanta-area theatre will stage "The Secret Garden" in an actual garden, and its "Evita" will cast the nearby countryside as rural Argentina.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 04:34PM[SHARE]Expanding its mission beyond developing playwrights, the O'Neill will accept applications in January for its first National Directors Fellowship.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 12:45PM[SHARE]Humana's next season brings in new voices and a few returning favorites. New and notable this time: a slightly more pronounced Kentucky twang.
SOURCE: americantheatre.org at 08:08AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
A founding staffer at the Village Voice, Tallmer reported on a changing city, and championed its most adventurous theatre, for five decades.
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