Monday, June 19, 2023
This year's honorees include John M. Atherlay, Gwen Gilliam, Brett Finley, Elynmarie Kazle, Robert J. Bruyr, and Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:52AMIts fresh contemporary takes on Shakespeare, the Greeks, and others have become a staple of NYC's summer season, but the company has bigger plans.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:23AMFriday, June 16, 2023
The poet, playwright, and screenwriter will succeed Tarell Alvin McCraney in the position, leading the program alongside co-chair Anne Erbe.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:56PMWith audiences and donations down by at least 20 percent, theatre leaders say the move was “unavoidable.”
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:49AMThursday, June 15, 2023
The co-founder of Show-Score, Gaur, who has a background in nonprofit arts administration, will succeed Victoria Bailey in August.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:10PMThe commissioned playwright will use Life Jacket's ethnographic research approach to create a play about trans people in the U.S.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:43PMTuesday, June 13, 2023
Whether students are in the process of reclaiming or rejecting their identities, a new book offers resources to help subvert stereotypes and understand embodiment.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:54AMTeo rounds out the team, formed after the retirement of the company's namesake leader last year.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:20AMThe theatre will help develop musical theatre programs at 3 middle schools.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:10AMMonday, June 12, 2023
A Host of People is joining forces with Detroit Action to dramatize the legacy of housing discrimination in a participatory, collective setting.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:49PMSunday, June 11, 2023
On this special pre-Tony Awards edition, we talk to the playwrights nominated for 'Cost of Living' and 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' and to Playbill's Diep Tran.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:48AMFriday, June 9, 2023
After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:30PMThursday, June 8, 2023
Travis Russ and Melissa Moschitto talk about the delicate, revealing work of recovering stories of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks from 100-plus years ago.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:25PMMadeline Myers has written the new musical 'Double Helix' with and for its lead performer, Samantha Massell, who plays a woman scientist unjustly neglected by history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:53PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
What does winning the Regional Theatre Tony mean for the 106-year-old theatre? For artistic director Danny Feldman, it's a sign that the often struggling theatre is on the right track.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:56PMThe new program will allow artists and community organizations access to the theatre's physical spaces.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:45PMThis month a famous cross-dressing performer finds love and success in her farewell tour, 2 new theatres are inaugurated, history is made at the Tony Awards, and an original musical gives vo…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:24AMEarly-career writers Amanda L. Andrei, Citlali Pizarro, and afrikah saleh comprise this year's cohort.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:33AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
A latecomer to acting, he had a rich, varied, decades-long career onstage and on screen, not only as a performer but as a mentor, teacher, and leader.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:27PMEmilio Sosa and J. Jared Janas compare notes on the costumes, hair, wigs, and makeup they've made for a wide array of periods and teams this season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:31PMLear deBessonet, Maria Friedman, and Tommy Kail compare notes on staging 'Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd,' and 'Merrily We Roll Along.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:23AMThe survey also tracks educator's concerns around censorship and post-COVID stats.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:13AMMonday, June 5, 2023
The leader, performer, and educator succeeds deputy artistic director and education director Greta Lambert (no relation) in the role.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:09PMResidents are provided a home, travel, food, a $550 stipend, and a flexible $1,000 writers' choice fund to support the development of their musical.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:37PMThursday, June 1, 2023
Macella joins the company as it establishes a new permanent artistic home following the purchase of a building in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:15PMJennings comes to MTC after 19 seasons at Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:04PMWednesday, May 31, 2023
How the creators of 'A Transparent Musical' have adapted the hit series about a Jewish family's multiple gender journeys into a stage musical, premiering tonight at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:50PMMarina Zurita is the director of this new work about solidarity and struggle among Brazilian waste pickers, but she's not the piece's sole author.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:14AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
Winners of the playwriting prize receive a $5,000 cash award, a public reading, and a summer workshop as part of Vassar's Powerhouse Theater Season.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:41PMThe disarming myth-making musical 'Lizard Boy,' about to make its NYC debut, is just one of the trails being blazed by this Seattle-based auteur.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:52PMThe award, which comes with a $10,000 unrestricted prize, honors playwrights who have forged their own paths with smaller-budget theatre companies and ensembles.
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