Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Teo rounds out the team, formed after the retirement of the company's namesake leader last year.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:20AM[SHARE]The theatre will help develop musical theatre programs at 3 middle schools.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:25PM[SHARE]Madeline 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 02:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 02:56PM[SHARE]The new program will allow artists and community organizations access to the theatre's physical spaces.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:45PM[SHARE]This 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 11:24AM[SHARE]Early-career writers Amanda L. Andrei, Citlali Pizarro, and afrikah saleh comprise this year's cohort.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 08:27PM[SHARE]Emilio 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 05:31PM[SHARE]Lear deBessonet, Maria Friedman, and Tommy Kail compare notes on staging 'Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd,' and 'Merrily We Roll Along.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:23AM[SHARE]The survey also tracks educator's concerns around censorship and post-COVID stats.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:13AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:09PM[SHARE]Residents 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 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 02:15PM[SHARE]Jennings comes to MTC after 19 seasons at Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 12:50PM[SHARE]Marina 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 08:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:41PM[SHARE]The 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 05:52PM[SHARE]The award, which comes with a $10,000 unrestricted prize, honors playwrights who have forged their own paths with smaller-budget theatre companies and ensembles.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2023
He steps down after 17 years of leadership at the California company, where his legacy included strong ties with European companies.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:48PM[SHARE]This month Brian talks to the Bay Area playwright about the writing process, battling imposter syndrome, and redefining success.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:28PM[SHARE]Courtney and Abreu each received an unrestricted award of $5,000, and were among eight finalists selected by the committee.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:14PM[SHARE]Among the 12 executives from 7 countries who will participate in arts management intensive are 2 theatre administrators, Shaza Ishak and Claudio de Vasco.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:57PM[SHARE]3 participants in the company's Resident Artists Program (RAP)--Lydia Jialu Li, Sarah Finn, and Jovon Outlaw---will present new works-in-progress at the theatre June 8-10.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:35PM[SHARE]After 14 years with the arts activism organization, its producing artistic director will leave at the end of 2023.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2023
The Boston high schooler took first place and a $3,000 scholarship, with Atlanta's Eryn Regans in second and Greensboro, N.C.'s Laylah Cooper-Hallman third.
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