This month Brian talks to the writer/performer of 'Where We Belong,' inspired by her experiences as a Native person loving, studying, then questioning Shakespeare.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:18PMRoughly equal parts joy and rigor have characterized his 10-year tenure as artistic director of this influential new-play incubator.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMA new Broadway-bound musical of the popular 2006 film, now in Chicago, aims to honor the original while probing its psychological complexities for a different age.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PMAn iconic play about trans men and butch lesbians arrives in Maine at an auspicious time, both for its writer and for trans representation onstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMThe influential Off-Off-Broadway is now seeking a managing director.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:12PMThe married team will serve as co-artistic directors of the Philly company, replacing Paige Price.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:43PMShe'll leave the theatre after leading it for 7 years, in a career change inspired in part by a play she staged there, Cusi Cram's 'Novenas for a Lost Hospital.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:20PMA graduate of the University of Houston with extensive credits in D.C. and elsewhere, she joins the Atlanta theatre for the 2022-23 season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:55AMA news story about a performance in a Ukrainian bomb shelter inspired the U.S. theatre company Irondale to fly a young troupe over, putting human faces on harrowing headlines.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:10PMAfter our July break, we return for an interview with the writer-director-performer of 'The Nosebleed.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:26PMHow a Shakespeare in the Park production taught this designer that 'political theatre' could mean something different for Black and white Americans.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:18PMA beloved musical about refugees, and a new one about current U.S. border policies, hit unexpectedly hard in a newly unsettled time.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PMA dramaturg and co-director, she'll advise on season planning, manage new-work development, and lead a new engagement division for the South Side Chicago theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:08AMThe Texas State University student will work alongside the leadership of the Austin theatre to learn the ropes of nonprofit theatremaking.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:41PMA play may not convince anyone but it can share information, hold a space for grief and complexity, de-stigmatize abortion, and rally troops demoralized by the fall of Roe.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:12PMAmong this year's awards are 6 for playwrights/theatre artists and 6 for dance artists, as well as scholarships for high school-age theatremakers and performers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:36AMThe actor, a champion of the late author's work, will join Wilson's widow, Constanza Romero, for remarks at the opening of his childhood home in the Hill District.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:18AMThe Twin Cities theatre, having commissioned 20 new musicals by 2020, lines up plans for a program called Next 25X25.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:04PMIn this excerpt from 'Shy,' the brutally frank memoir Rodgers wrote with Jesse Green, a Carson McCullers adaptation takes shape, then founders.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PMCurrently associate artistic director at Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C., Paul will succeed Julianne Boyd, who has led Barrington Stage Company since its founding 27 years ago.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:16AMComposer Mary Rodgers's unsparing new memoir, equal parts hilarious and harrowing, tells of an eventful life in which musical theatre wasn't the only source of drama.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:37AMThis small storefront theatre in a walkable cultural district puts its focus on new work and on its neighborhood.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:20AMScholars and fans gathered in Boston last month to consider, and reconsider, the contemporary and global relevance of the great, tormented American dramatist.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:11PMOver 3 days in Philly, dramaturgs and others who use dramaturgy in their work met to share best practices and new definitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:21AMThe pioneering co-founder of Negro Ensemble Company looks back on an acting and producing career that was never just about himself.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:09AMJennifer McClure’s new book provides a prop master’s guide to blood effects, from design to clean-up and every sanguinary step in between.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMAugust spotlights Black theatrical trailblazers, a theatre company that conquered all media, and a big theatre for little folks in the Lone Star state.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:39PM'Try On Theater Days' aims to upend the often exclusionary practice of college theatre auditions by allowing students and faculty to mutually assess their fit with each other and the program…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:11AMAmong the 20 members of this year's class of artists and leaders are 8 with links to theatre and/or public performance.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:45PMThe New York theatre also announced the 11 directors who will be part of their 2022-23 Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:54PMLucas is a playwright. Steve is a magician. Lucas asked Steve to show him some magic tricks. Steve did. And this is what happened. Tony nominee Lucas Hnath (Dana H.) directs this unique coll…
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