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Thursday, August 25, 2022

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Names Debbie Chinn Executive Director by American Theatre Editors

The former Pipeline Project managing director will succeed interim E.D. Karena Fiorenza in the position.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AM

Carmen Khan Is Uptown! Knauer Center’s First Artistic Director by American Theatre Editors

A Pennsylvania native and experienced arts leader, Khan joins the company as it launches its first fully produced theatre season.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:37AM
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Ambition Amid the Angst: The High School Theatre Program Tim Ortmann Built by American Theatre Editors

By taking his young charges and their talents seriously, this extraordinary director made Niles North Theatre exemplary, both in production values and educational value.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:03AM
Monday, August 22, 2022

You Couldn’t Say No to Myrna Salazar by American Theatre Editors

An irresistible advocate of Latine theatre artists, the founder of the Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance paved the way for so many of us, and did it with love, grit, and grace.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:05PM

Latinx Playwrights Circle Names 5 Artists in Residence by American Theatre Editors

The support of Creatives Rebuild New York is making possible 2-year residencies for N.Y.-based Latine theatremakers.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:09PM

The Subtext: Where Madeline Sayet Belongs by American Theatre Editors

This month Brian talks to the writer/performer of 'Where We Belong,' inspired by her experiences as a Native person loving, studying, then questioning Shakespeare.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:18PM

Conversation Starters: How Robert Egan Put Ojai Playwrights on the Map by American Theatre Editors

Roughly equal parts joy and rigor have characterized his 10-year tenure as artistic director of this influential new-play incubator.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM
Friday, August 19, 2022

Sympathy for ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ by American Theatre Editors

A new Broadway-bound musical of the popular 2006 film, now in Chicago, aims to honor the original while probing its psychological complexities for a different age.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PM
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Exuberant and Wild: The Long, Evolving Ride of Sylvan Oswald’s ‘Pony’ by American Theatre Editors

An iconic play about trans men and butch lesbians arrives in Maine at an auspicious time, both for its writer and for trans representation onstage.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Producing Director Meredith Lynsey Schade to Leave NY’s HERE by American Theatre Editors

The influential Off-Off-Broadway is now seeking a managing director.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:12PM

Taibi Magar, Tyler Dobrowsky to Co-Lead Philadelphia Theatre Company by American Theatre Editors

The married team will serve as co-artistic directors of the Philly company, replacing Paige Price.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:43PM

Rattlestick Artistic Director Daniella Topol to Step Down for Nursing Career by American Theatre Editors

She'll leave the theatre after leading it for 7 years, in a career change inspired in part by a play she staged there, Cusi Cram's 'Novenas for a Lost Hospital.'

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:20PM

Kacie Pimentel Is Alliance Theatre’s New BIPOC Stage Management Fellow by American Theatre Editors

A graduate of the University of Houston with extensive credits in D.C. and elsewhere, she joins the Atlanta theatre for the 2022-23 season.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:55AM
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Live From Lviv: Ukrainian Kids Bring a Play to Brooklyn by American Theatre Editors

A news story about a performance in a Ukrainian bomb shelter inspired the U.S. theatre company Irondale to fly a young troupe over, putting human faces on harrowing headlines.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:10PM
Monday, August 15, 2022

Offscript: How Aya Ogawa Writes on Bodies in Space by American Theatre Editors

After our July break, we return for an interview with the writer-director-performer of 'The Nosebleed.'

SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:26PM

Life During Wartime: The Backdrop of Kenny Leon’s ‘Much Ado’ by American Theatre Editors

How a Shakespeare in the Park production taught this designer that 'political theatre' could mean something different for Black and white Americans.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:18PM

One Scarf Vs. Siberia: What Can ‘Fiddler’ Teach a Parent in a Dangerous World? by American Theatre Editors

A beloved musical about refugees, and a new one about current U.S. border policies, hit unexpectedly hard in a newly unsettled time.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PM

Gabrielle Randle-Bent Named Associate Artistic Director at Court Theatre by American Theatre Editors

A dramaturg and co-director, she'll advise on season planning, manage new-work development, and lead a new engagement division for the South Side Chicago theatre.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:08AM
Friday, August 12, 2022

Penfold Theatre Names Morgan Peterson Arts Leadership Apprentice by American Theatre Editors

The Texas State University student will work alongside the leadership of the Austin theatre to learn the ropes of nonprofit theatremaking.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:41PM

What Role Can Theatre Play in the Fight for Abortion Rights? by American Theatre Editors

A play may not convince anyone but it can share information, hold a space for grief and complexity, de-stigmatize abortion, and rally troops demoralized by the fall of Roe.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:12PM

Princess Grace Awards Announced, Including Theatre and Dance Honorees by American Theatre Editors

Among this year's awards are 6 for playwrights/theatre artists and 6 for dance artists, as well as scholarships for high school-age theatremakers and performers.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:36AM

Denzel Washington to Speak at August Wilson House Opening by American Theatre Editors

The actor, a champion of the late author's work, will join Wilson's widow, Constanza Romero, for remarks at the opening of his childhood home in the Hill District.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:18AM
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Theatre Latté Da’s Goal: 25 New Musicals by 2025 by American Theatre Editors

The Twin Cities theatre, having commissioned 20 new musicals by 2020, lines up plans for a program called Next 25X25.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:04PM

A Lost ‘Member’: The Mary Rodgers Musical That Wasn’t by American Theatre Editors

In this excerpt from 'Shy,' the brutally frank memoir Rodgers wrote with Jesse Green, a Carson McCullers adaptation takes shape, then founders.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PM

Barrington Stage Names Alan Paul to Be Its New Artistic Director by American Theatre Editors

Currently associate artistic director at Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C., Paul will succeed Julianne Boyd, who has led Barrington Stage Company since its founding 27 years ago.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:16AM
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary by American Theatre Editors

Composer Mary Rodgers's unsparing new memoir, equal parts hilarious and harrowing, tells of an eventful life in which musical theatre wasn't the only source of drama.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:37AM

Know a Theatre: Amphibian Stage of Fort Worth, Texas by American Theatre Editors

This small storefront theatre in a walkable cultural district puts its focus on new work and on its neighborhood.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:20AM
Monday, August 8, 2022

O’Neill Conference: Long Days’ Journey Into a Legacy by American Theatre Editors

Scholars and fans gathered in Boston last month to consider, and reconsider, the contemporary and global relevance of the great, tormented American dramatist.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:11PM

Dramaturgy Breaks Out: LMDA 2022 in Philly, in Pictures by American Theatre Editors

Over 3 days in Philly, dramaturgs and others who use dramaturgy in their work met to share best practices and new definitions.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:21AM
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Robert Hooks: Always About the Ensemble by American Theatre Editors

The pioneering co-founder of Negro Ensemble Company looks back on an acting and producing career that was never just about himself.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:09AM

The Red Stuff: A Guide to Letting It Bleed Onstage by American Theatre Editors

Jennifer McClure’s new book provides a prop master’s guide to blood effects, from design to clean-up and every sanguinary step in between.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic