Friday, April 5, 2024
In Know Theatre's new show, Cloud Cult's 2010 concept album becomes an interstellar family drama set somewhere between Ohio and Proxima Centauri.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:44PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's world premiere play about a Black political dynasty is the latest in Steppenwolf's lineage of explosive work crafted around their acting ensemble.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:02PMThursday, April 4, 2024
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:35PMParticipants gathered to preserve the legacy and imagine the future of Latinx Theatre at the LTC's convening in Boston last month.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:04PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
April recalls the Hyers sisters, a prolific lyricist, a federal musical revue, a busy book writer, an August Wilson premiere, and an Anna Deavere Smith classic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:20PMSyracuse Stage's managing director, who began her theatre career in the Midwest, will take her place this summer next to CTC's new artistic director, Rick Dildine.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:54AMMonday, April 1, 2024
A conversation about censorship in high school theatre programs, and how students, teachers, and parents can push back.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:30PMThis month Brian talks to playwright Mashuq Mushtaq Deen about building a writing career, pushing audiences out of their comfort zone, and finding his place in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:15PMThe flagship theatre memorably mounted Shakespeare's popular history plays in 1990, and now they're back for another repertory rotation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:09PM2 works now in the public domain will be joined in a new 'pop opera hybrid' version.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:39AMFriday, March 29, 2024
A tenor known for romantic leads, the actor-singer tackles the iconic demon barber with only a slight key change and an emphasis on the humanity as much as the horror.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:27AMThe traveling workshop series for local TNB2S+ artists begins with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in May and Steppenwolf Theatre in July.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:34AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Even with arts journalism jobs in decline, emerging theatre critics keep training and finding new outlets for their voices.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:14PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Efforts like Fat Theatre Project and Broadway Bods are fighting for more opportunities for performers who identify as fat and to change the way they're seen onstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:03PMFrom conservatories to MFAs to youth ensembles, the best training to reflect human behavior onstage can take as many forms as life itself.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:19PMDiversifying design training and hiring, and an effort to fund plays about science.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:36AMThe diversification of theatre design starts—but doesn’t end—with training.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:35AMThis year's statements emphasize peace, truth, and resourcefulness.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:05AMTuesday, March 26, 2024
The playwright of 'Oslo' and the new 'Corruption' likes to wrestle in public with the things that trouble him and our politics.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:18PMMonday, March 25, 2024
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:32PMThis month, theatres are still making tough programming choices as they look hopefully toward growing into the future, plus thoughts from Willow James and Tiffany Keane Schaefer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PMResident companies at the NYC venue will now pay no rent when they stage work there.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:41PMIn our Winter issue, we look at training that doesn't simply instruct young artists in the ways of the world but aims to empower them to change it.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:20AMFriday, March 22, 2024
The company's current director of finance will go back to the job he occupied from 2008 to 2018.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:17PMFrom an instant connection at a workshop to world premiere productions, the creative duo's working relationship has continued to blossom over the years.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:07PMThursday, March 21, 2024
Woodzick talks to the Denver theatremaker about original-practices Shakespeare, centering queer folks in 'The Laramie Project,' and using the classics to prevent violence.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PMHer musical about the suffragists behind the 19th Amendment comes to Broadway with a few amendments of its own (and with Hillary Clinton as a producer).
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:57AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Seelig Lamparter will take over from retiring founding artistic director Janet Stanford.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:37PMA new Dada-influenced work from this longtime Children's Theatre Company member explores the intersection of sound and language.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:07PMFrom 'Proof' to 'Behind the Sheet,' the Sloan Foundation has supported hundreds of plays about science and scientists. What can we learn from this still growing body of work?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:53AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Bruner will take over at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in 2026.
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