Monday, June 16, 2025
Five years after an anti-racist manifesto challenged the theatre industry, we search for answers and accountability.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
The creative team behind a new musical at ACT honors their oft-disrespected Oakland home, telling a story about its overlooked tech contributions with a locally brewed hip-hop sound.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
This month's guests are Shakina Nayfack, Ashley Robinson, and Dan Gillespie Sells, who have turned an iconic 1970s play into a musical, and arts journalist Billy McEntee.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Sara Bareilles, Catherine Brunell, and Creel's friends partner with the Wing to establish the new fellowship.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Launched by Wales Millennium Centre and Crossover Labs, Annwn is the first global award celebrating art that incorporates immersive technology.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:55PM[SHARE]With this year's Summerworks festival, the New York City company reaffirms its commitment to new voices in a variety of registers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:49PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
Coby and Chris Orman are living a long-held dream by alternating as Frankie Valli in a Kansas City dinner theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:25PM[SHARE]The Baltimore theatre's founding artistic director will retire at the end of the upcoming 2025-26 season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
A Golden Globe-winning theatre founder, the start for postdramatic theatre legends, and a William Finn world premiere.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AM[SHARE]LaTeshia Ellerson reflects on foundational shifts in the country and field, and how collaboration can lead us forward.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AM[SHARE]In his Editor's Note, Rob Weinert-Kendt reflects on the existential questions of recent years and not losing track of what's important.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions from late May and early June.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PM[SHARE]Brian talks to the Minneapolis-based playwright about learning from criticism, connecting with collaborators, and finding his voice.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PM[SHARE]Last month's D.C.-area gathering of makers and advocates of theatre for young people offered a radical yet knowing optimism about the industry and the art form at an especially urgent time.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:40AM[SHARE]In a change addressing significant financial challenges for the small nonprofit, DCT will scale back productions and pause its education program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:03AM[SHARE]The 2025-26 cohort of Jose SolÃs's residency comprises 12 writers in a yearlong partnership with three organizations dedicated to creating opportunities for theatre critics of color.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:33AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
The festival, running June 3-8 at the Brick, plans to feature work by trans artists for trans audiences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:24PM[SHARE]De Leon succeeds Lily Tung Crystal and interim artistic director Katie Bradley, and will lead the Midwest's largest Asian American theatre company alongside managing director Ann Thu T. Pham.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:58PM[SHARE]Michael Urie and the festival's co-founders are bringing Pride Plays to the nation's capital for this year's 50th anniversary of WorldPride.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:27AM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2025
The late playwright of 'Love! Valour! Compassion!' gets an official marker in New York City.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:17PM[SHARE]Taylor Mac, whose new play 'Prosperous Fools' is loosely inspired by 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme,' and Jeffrey Hatcher, who has a new adaptation of 'The Imaginary Invalid,' talk comedy, cathar…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
Having served since 2022, he will leave to begin a new chapter of public service, including studies in urban planning.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:35PM[SHARE]The inaugural four-day festival (running June 26-29) will showcase queer creators of color in dance, theatre, and collaborative artmaking.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:15PM[SHARE]The scholarship, administered by Theatre Communications Group, supports early-career costume designers through professional development.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2025
The most recent edition of South Coast Rep's annual play-development gathering showcased moving works about loss and reupped the theatre's long-standing commitment to emerging writers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:09PM[SHARE]The business case for a more diverse American theatre is a distraction from our core human and artistic values, which is the ground we must stand on in the fight for DEI.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
One of the late composer's musical theatre successors pays tribute to his elder's craft, creativity, and unflappable professionalism.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:09PM[SHARE]A Broadway show about the making of a historic record in Cuba doesn't sacrifice the authenticity of its deep cultural context"or its original language.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:12PM[SHARE]Gaven D. Trinidad's 'Learning to Read by Moonlight' is being produced by 2 companies and staged at 3 different Boston locations, giving its themes of immigrant belonging a wide and hyper-loc…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities.
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