The theatre field's unexamined standards and hierarchies are too frequently oppressive, exploitative, and white supremacist. Here's how we can change them.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:34AMLeaders at OSF and Woolly Mammoth will each receive $500,000 and will join a distinguished cohort of female leaders.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:57AMWe were lucky to know the scenic designer, but not as fortunate as he was to work so tirelessly and well at a job he loved for four decades.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:49PMThe season will consist of two play readings and a fall mainstage production from playwright Kim Senklip Harvey.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:28PMArtistic leaders at the Playwright Realm writers' service organization talk about how, when, and whether to send your work for consideration.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:26PMUndergraduate theatre programs join forces to combat artistic isolation and build creative community.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMThe company will move forward with an actor-led model intended to echo the production process of Shakespeare's theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:45PMArtists' Rep's new managing director wants to break down the silos in her workplace and in her art form too.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:39PMThe grants, ranging from $10,000 to $25,000, are going to support new work from BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ artists.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PMWhile Broadway awaits its return, nonprofits and new leaders should seize the chance to return the art form to a sense of service and risk.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:32PMNot content to simply stand as an example for so many others, she moved and lived and breathed a legacy into being.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32AMThe season will feature virtual offerings on O! as well as onstage productions, including OSF's first winter season production.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMThis month Brian talks with the playwright of 'The Moors' and 'Collective Rage' about how writing for TV inspired her write a novel about the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:05PMAn interactive web portal combines theatre and education in an effort to destigmatize mental illness.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PMEfforts like the Black Seed, the Drinking Gourd, Next Wave initiative, and the Sprinkle-Hamlin award are directing funding to develop work by Black artists.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:42PMA lifelong student and master storyteller, he knew exactly where to put the focus of his and our attention.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:49PMThis month the hosts talk to an award-winning colleague about gatekeeping and pandemic-era criticism.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:04PMA stage manager's stopwatch keeps a COVID vigil, and a reader expresses skepticism about arts funding as a panacea.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:03PMThe Lebanese playwright/performer, who receives a major international award next week, talks about her work, where it comes from, and what it means in this fraught time.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:30PMA look at Black achievement in the theatre from Garland Anderson to Adrienne Kennedy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:23PMThis year, USA named 7 theatre and performance artists as part of its largest ever fellowship class.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:04PMCal Shakes will invite other Bay Area organizations to use its outdoor amphitheater.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:38PMMadeline Sayet and Tara Moses will join the organization for a nine-month residency.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:25PMGrants for Arts Projects awards span multiple disciplines, including theatre and musical theatre, and range from $10,000 to $100,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:23PMRebuilding will be challenging, but we must embrace abundance and celebrate possibility to create a better vision for the future.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:13PMIn Louisville, the informal Church of Grover's Corners has been reading and relishing 'Our Town' aloud every other month for a few years now.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:00AMThis year's finalists include Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Miranda Rose Hall, Jiehae Park, and Beth Steel.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:21PMThe soul-healing and community-building qualities of children's theatre, a key part of the Federal Theatre Project, should be central to any new deal for the arts.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:38PMGrowing calls for government arts support are welcome, even if the historical model of the 1930s is an imprecise analogy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:36PMThe NY Observer's drama critic, a Brit, brought an outsider's inquisitiveness to the American theatre, as well as principled grouchiness.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:43PMWendy C. Goldberg's TheFrontOffice Foundation will award money to folks impacted by the industry shutdown.
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