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Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford and Kyle Haden will lead the newly combined organization.
The historic Providence theatre’s artistic director, whose last play at its leader is 'The Getaway Driver,' recalls his two-decade tenure, and talks about what's next.
Recruited by Padua Hills Playwrights founder Murray Mednick, Shepard joined an ad-hoc faculty in 1978 for the experimental workshop. Among his pupils: a young David Henry Hwang.
The cup overfloweth in this nationwide roundup of new stage works.
Every other year since 1989, the International Black Theatre Festival has gathered theatremakers and fans for a celebration of Black artistry and excellence.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Featuring more than 30 short plays by women+ playwrights, the new anthology is also a civic initiative activating theatres nationwide before the fall midterms.
The three-week celebration will bring discounted tickets, free pop-up performances at airports and metro stations, industry events, and community programming to the D.C. area.
In the early 2000s, some major U.S. theatres dedicated spaces in their buildings to producing new work by new playwrights. Where are those programs—and those writers—now?
Western Washington University's summer program brings students together with guest writers for two weeks of collaborative development.
A new report, part of the Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, spotlights promising solutions to long-standing artistic challenges at a Minnesota theatre compa…
NYC’s Puerto Rican theatre, a new Wallace Foundation report shows, faces structural challenges—and has much to offer the field.
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can't be untold.
This adaptation of Sophocles’s 'Antigone' centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
Vickie Ramirez's play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
This month Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he's not an actor from Tom Hanks.
A report from Shepherdstown, where it's all new all the time. Plus: thoughts on the Oskar Eustis bombshell and what it says about our role in the movement.
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
A collaboration between the Cherry Lane Theatre and Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker, the collective offers six writers a nine-month fellowship culminating in a series of readings.
Diane Paulus’s new staging at American Repertory Theater—starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany—promises a non-literal approach to Ionesco’s allegory about fascis…
Arkansas Rep artistic director Steve H. Broadnax III has written a new show about a local hero who went from a sharecropper's farm to the heights of state and federal government.
Reflections from this past summer’s institute, and on the work we saw at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s New Play Conference and New Musical Theatre Conference.
As developmental spaces dwindle, the New York Stage & Film Summer Season preserves a crucial part of theatremaking: the moment when artists and audiences shape a work together.
What has he learned after leading Minneapolis's flagship theatre for the last 11 years, and what's next? Plus: a Pittsburgh check-in with Sharon Eberson.
