Tuesday, November 21, 2023
How 6 THRIVE! recipient theatres have embraced new mediums and built new audiences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:13PMMonday, November 20, 2023
This month Woodzick talks to the Bay Area playwright about political disillusionment, the liberation of basic income, and the sacred space of theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:38PMFriday, November 17, 2023
The writer of 'Stereophonic' talks about his obsessions with detail and destruction, and North Carolina correspondent Lauren Van Hemert fills us in on the Research Triangle theatre scene.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PMAfter serving as Woolly Mammoth Theatre's interim managing director, DeLong now joins a leadership team that includes Mica Cole and PJ Powers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:54PMThis month Brian talks to a writer inspired by the music his parents made when he was young, as well as by the diverse biographies and interests of the playwrights he admires.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:35AMThursday, November 16, 2023
The N.Y.-based reporter and critic is the second recipient of the award, which isgiven by the American Theatre Critics Association.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:36AMThe honor, given annually to an alumnus of the foundation's fellows program, comes with $10,000 support.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:17AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
The 40-year-old Brooklyn company has spent the year exploring and interweaving major plays of the 20th century, from Glaspell to Williams to Hansberry. Their current show is 'American Blues.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:52PMThe late director was fluent in matters spiritual, emotional, and textual.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:58PMTomei, who will leave the theatre next August, has been the company's first and only managing director to date.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:32PMThe new program will provide grants of of $65,000 to $130,000 to organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:40AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
When a painter and a performance artist work with theatres, all parties learn lessons about experience, engagement, and ecstasy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:18PMHow a Lakota playwright, 7 Indigenous actors, and an L.A.-based ensemble survived a pandemic, crossed thousands of prairie miles, and confronted centuries of history to make a play.
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The 10 playwrights will receive staged readings of their work and a $10,000 stipend.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:24PMThe New Jersey theatre is developing new works by Scott Organ, Vincent Terrell Durham, Benjamin V. Marshall, and Melissa Toomey.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:10AMThursday, November 9, 2023
The Spanish dramatist, now in residency with NYC's PlayCo, talks about his love for Pinter, his close work with translators, and the radical transformations made possible by live theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:50PMFrom Bernard Herrmann to Luis Buñuel, filmic influences found their way into his musicals' form and content, up to and including his final show, 'Here We Are.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:35PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
The songwriting duo's musical 'Ride' will have its American premiere at the Old Globe next year.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:48PMTuesday, November 7, 2023
The 'Dear Evan Hansen' writer will join Jill Rafson in conversation on YouTube to talk about the new TCG Books release 'If I Forget and Other Plays.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PMManaging director Douglas Love-Ramos left the Florida company last July.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:39PMThe fellowship seeks to support a promising female or nonbinary actor of color and includes a $10,000 prize.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:25PMWhat can blossom when funders put their trust in BIPOC-led institutions like Silk Road Rising, Pangea World Theater, and Penumbra Theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:43AMMonday, November 6, 2023
November recalls the play Lincoln first saw Booth in, Kern's Princess Theatre musicals, a Puerto Rican literary godfather, a gospel Oedipus musical, and a century-defining epic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:47AMHer specialties have been performance theory, European theatre and cultural history, transformative aesthetics, and performances of Greek tragedies since 1800.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:16AMFriday, November 3, 2023
The new works grant is named in honor of founding artistic director Katherine Owens.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:49PMThe 2 writers were honored at last week's Dramatists Guild Foundation gala.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:28PMThursday, November 2, 2023
Why a very busy TV writer has regularly joined a group of theatre artists who pull all-nighters to create plays from scratch.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
Keen Company's roving production of Joan Didion's mourning memoir makes a good fit for Long Wharf's itinerant programming agenda.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:50PMThis month Woodzick talks to mutli-hyphenate performer Michael Urie ahead of his return to Broadway in 'Spamalot.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:22PMThe founder of Yale Rep and ART had intellect, idealism, and indignation to spare, and he put it all in service of the theatre he wanted to see in the world.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:51AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
A look at 3 companies of color who are making theatre that’s local, new, and inventive.
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