Tuesday, May 21, 2024
A Red Orchid ensemble members Michael Shannon and Travis A. Knight star in Levi Holloway's eerie new play.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:46AMMonday, May 20, 2024
At Milwaukee Rep and around the world, this passionate director put his focus on others---writers, actors, audiences---and we all benefited.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:50PMA roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:02PMThe former Timber Lake Playhouse artistic director succeeds Matthew Scott Campbell in the position, who left to join Barter Theatre in December.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:19PMFriday, May 17, 2024
Why can't Americans talk to each other anymore? Theatre artists may have precisely the right skills to kickstart discourse and rekindle empathy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:10PMThe writer of 'Slave Play' will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:30PMThursday, May 16, 2024
For 13 years, Kathy Evans’s new-work development program in upstate New York has given writers what they need to make new musicals.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:54PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
A Southern California native whose career has taken her to the Bay Area and the Twin Cities, she will succeed Snehal Desai in leading the L.A. company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:24PMIn a new play at Chicago's Court Theatre, playwright Nambi E. Kelley looks for the human being---and the humor---in a Civil Rights legend.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
This special podcast episode featuring panelists Shepsu Aakhu, Myesha-Tiara, and Xavier Custodio, moderated by Carla Stillwell, was recorded live from The Understudy in Chicago.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PMCo-artistic director Jay Duffer will take over as the company's sole leader.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:54PMAfter making waves in the Chicago comedy scene, the Second City alum has his eyes set on L.A., but not before helping others achieve their comedy dreams.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:09PMBerry comes to New York from Minnesota's Penumbra Theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:00AMMonday, May 13, 2024
86-year-old Nicki Cochrane, a tireless fixture of New York theatre audiences, sees 500 shows a year, by any means necessary.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:01PMFriday, May 10, 2024
On this Broadway-themed episode, Rob and Alli check in with busy critic Brittani Samuel and talk to choreographer siblings Rick and Jeff Kuperman about their innovative work on 'The Outsider…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:33PM‘Ghost Waltz,’ Oliver Mayer’s new play at Latino Theater Company, excavates the life of Juventino Rosas, an obscure musician who wrote one of the most popular earworms of all time.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:35AMThe playwright's new play at Intar draws on his own youth for lessons about masculinity, assimilation, and language.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:19AMThursday, May 9, 2024
What's it like to get 3 chances to play a god? An actor talks to a playwright about confidence, gender, and climate.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:01PMMay recalls the Astor Place Riot, a vaudeville women's rights advocate, the Moscow Art Theatre, a pioneer of Asian American drama, a Chicano performance troupe, and a beloved Tesori-Kushner …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:42PMWednesday, May 8, 2024
After serving for 3 years as the successor of founder Donald Jordan, she'll leave the company to be closer to her family in New York.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:12AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
Ezzard will lead the New Jersey company with artistic director Ricardo Khan.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:13PMThe executive director will step down this summer after a decade in the position to join Audible Theater as the head of live creative producing.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PMMonday, May 6, 2024
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:25PMAs Haven Theatre closes its doors after 10 years in the city, it takes with it an initiative that has helped foster 7 cohorts of emerging directors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:19PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Somewhere between the earth and the stars, tradition and experimentation, La MaMa and the Met Opera, he keeps exploring his art form’s possibilities.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:32PMFriday, May 3, 2024
A new staging of Ghassan Kanafani's novella inaugurates Golden Thread's 2024 Season of Palestine with a reminder of our past and invites us to consider a future of joyful resistance.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:33AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Leak succeeds Andrew Hungerford, who has stepped away from the theatre after 10 years.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:54PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
This month Brian talks to the writer and producer about pivoting from teaching, feeling stuck in development hell, and championing local storytellers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:26PMCraig Lucas's fanciful, freighted romance returns to the theatre that commissioned it, South Coast Repertory, this time with songs attached.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:16PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
With a 7-show season at 2 of Center Theatre Group's venues, the new artistic director is putting special focus on reviving the beloved, beleaguered Mark Taper Forum.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:05PMIn this month's Chicago newsletter, theatremakers Jillian Leff and Joel Willison share what inspires them and the American Theatre team invites you to join us for a special event in the city.
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