Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The new program will expand performing arts opportunities for people with disabilities.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:07PM[SHARE]An analysis of data from 2021 shows a slight increase in jobs for BIPOC and non-binary union members, as well as wage gaps for older workers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
In 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home,' next playing at Kansas City Rep and Yale Rep, this busy playwright pens another piece inspired by history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:41PM[SHARE]Somehow the late, great director could work on my play---and give it exactly what it needed---even while occupied with countless other thoughts and projects.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2023
After 30 years of artistry in the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio will conclude operations at 154 Christopher Street on Aug. 31.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:44PM[SHARE]To mark the bicentennial of Liberia's founding by formerly enslaved and free Black Americans, a troupe from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation joined with Liberians to make theatre about i…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2023
The first preview of the acclaimed musical, about the lynching of a falsely accused Jewish American, was picketed by neo-Nazis.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:49PM[SHARE]Shelley was formerly the artistic director of the House Theatre of Chicago.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
This month Woodzick talks with the writer of 'Amani' about Black futures, expansive visions of gender, and how an archivist can be an activist.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Currently an associate artistic director at the theatre, he will succeed Janet Allen as of July 1.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:50PM[SHARE]The designer's friend, colleague, and mentee recalls him as a tirelessly busy, no-fuss genius who cherished real materials and was always ready with a brilliant drawing or model.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2023
The director of the world premiere of 'Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side' shares what unlocked this haunting play for him and the creative team.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:20PM[SHARE]Earlier this month, Terrence Spivey's play about the last slave ship, Clotilda, had its premiere in the Alabama community its survivors built.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:39PM[SHARE]How one historically white theatre company in Virginia has invested in reaching new audiences, and fostering writers, of color.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:23AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2023
Stephen McKinley Henderson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ntozake Shange will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwright's Sidewalk, and A.R.T./New York will be recognized for …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PM[SHARE]From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Both artists will use the award, intended to highlight veteran artists no longer in the limelight, to continue writing.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:43PM[SHARE]His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, 'Dark Disabled Stories,' is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disab…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Proposed drag bans aren't really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren't just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods---they're also attacking an art a…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:40PM[SHARE]Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:06PM[SHARE]With Eugene Lee, Trinity Rep's founder leader built a true resident theatre and forged a distinct and visceral aesthetic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:05PM[SHARE]At Trinity Rep, Hall built a questing, adventurous theatre and brought a company of actors, and Providence audiences, along with him.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:04PM[SHARE]Kaas-Lentz will succeed Cynthia Fuhrman in the role, after having served as PCS's interim managing director since March 2022.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:10PM[SHARE]The program will accept applications from early-career journalists and critics of color until Tuesday, March 7 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:40AM[SHARE]The recipients, who were announced and awarded at an in-person ceremony last night at Lincoln Center, will each receive $550,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2023
Diaz's play 'Things With Friends' will be staged at the 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:14AM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
The open membership policy, which has sharply increased the percentage of union members of color since 2021, will mean a phase-out of the Equity Membership Candidate program.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:49PM[SHARE]The winner will be named at the award presentation and 45th anniversary celebration on March 27 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:24PM[SHARE]The unique partnership also announced grants for new works at 2 New England theatres.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:38PM[SHARE]Succeeding the theatre's founding artistic director, he will have led the company through nearly 17 years and several cycles of community-collaborative shows.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:22AM[SHARE]The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 prize and commemorative trophy.
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