Tuesday, November 8, 2022
The festival will feature work from playwrights Donja R. Love, Charlie Oh, Omer Abbas Salem, Gina Femia, Nancy García Loza, and Jeffrey Lieber.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:20PMThe expansion includes five spaces on the sixth floor of the Tank's current Midtown Manhattan location.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PMMonday, November 7, 2022
In a new memoir, the longtime Old Globe leader and frequent Broadway helmer considers an eventful career and offers tips he picked up the hard way.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:22PMIn this excerpt from his new memoir 'Jack in the Box: Or, How to Goddamn Direct,' Jack O'Brien recounts his fierce face-off with theatre giant George Abbott.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:20PMFor 25 years, this hugely influential program welcomed directors from all over the world to compare work and share practices. Is it really over?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:55PMIn 'Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family' and 'The Gospel Woman' this journalist-turned-playwright recovers overlooked histories---and that work started at home.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:38AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Many theatregoers in the region say they'd be more likely to attend if masks were required.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:18PMThis year's 24-hour intensive will make a star studded in-person return with six new works developed over the course of one night.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:06PMNovember looks back on some Houdini hijinks, the origins of two major regional theatres, and a First Nations-led premiere.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:07PMThursday, November 3, 2022
Samuel will receive a cash award and a complimentary annual American Theatre Critics Association membership.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:08PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
The Met Opera-bound revival, directed by Robert O'Hara, plays this weekend in Omaha, where the influential Black leader was born Malcolm Little in 1925.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:00PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Goldberg leaves the post after 18 years, and the O’Neill will next seek an interim artistic director.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:13PMHis new play 'Straight Line Crazy' may treat an American subject, but the English playwright is still addressing some of his chief political and social preoccupations.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:17PMMonday, October 31, 2022
Footsteps on the roof, mischief-making specters, self-opening doors, and more fill our annual Halloween anthology of tales from haunted theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:59AMFriday, October 28, 2022
A new play by Rogelio Martinez returns to a painful and contested piece of post-Cold War history and attempts to reckon with its wounds and lessons.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:15PMFort Myers's Florida Rep reckons with at least $1 million in damage, while other theatres, and the region in general, face a steep path to recovery.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:50AMThursday, October 27, 2022
In the first theatre project undertaken by the influential screenwriting platform, the Brooklyn-based writer will receive $10,000 to develop a new work with the Florida theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
Created to broaden racial and ethnic portrayals of Jewishness onstage, the program provides playwrights with a $10,000 commission and a $5,000 developmental budget to support the creation of…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:56PMThe Bay Area singer-songwriter will receive a $10,000 award funded by the RHE Foundation and Theatre Bay Area performing arts organization.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PM22 BITOC grantees will receive a total of $900,000 in general operating support and the opportunity to join REBUILD: A Learning Cohort.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PMWith a 40th anniversary staging of 'Ubu The King,' the Actors' Gang co-founder is revisiting his company's roots, though he never strayed very far from them in the first place.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:29PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
This month Woodzick talks to the singer-songwriter about growing up gay, playing the guitar, looking for role models, and her new musical, 'F*ck7thGrade.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PMIrwin, whose previous post was as marketing director and associate producer for California's Laguna Beach Playhouse, takes on a new role at NJRep.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:14AMThe latest entry in the new-play festival game, staged in August across 5 venues in an arts-centric town, had impressive local buy-in and enthusiastic full houses.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32AMMonday, October 24, 2022
Back in August after a pandemic hiatus, the biennial gathering of Black theatremakers reclaimed its status as both a reunion and a showcase for new work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:34PMThis month Brian talks to the busy writer-director about his background, the supportiveness of Chicago's theatre scene, and his penchant for large-cast plays.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:24PMThursday, October 20, 2022
Joined for the Rolex Arts Mentorship program, these 2 directors have a lot of common interests: interrogating Shakespeare, staging music, and welcoming new audiences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:59PMThe annual award recognizes an outstanding emerging playwright with a $2,000 honorarium and a public reading of their play.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:37PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Director Clinton Turner Davis remembers Charles Fuller, the playwright known for 'A Soldier's Play,' which earned the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2020 Tony Award for Best Revival o…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:19PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
The 2 leaders will leave the influential Off-Broadway theatre after 15 and 8 years, respectively, but not before planning the company's next 2 seasons.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:06PMA Washington state native who advanced from intern to Seattle Rep's leader over 2 decades, he will lead a prestigious Chicago theatre almost half the size of the Rep.
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