Wednesday, October 12, 2022
The award will recognize a mid-career theatre artist engaged in social change through the arts with an unrestricted $18,000 prize.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:21PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
After seven seasons, Kramer will be succeeded by Tara Franklin and James Barry as co-producing artistic directors.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:40PMFriday, October 7, 2022
After joining the organization in 2021, Laisure became the first woman and person of color to hold the managing director position in CPH's 107-year history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:26PMThursday, October 6, 2022
Playwright Jonathan Alexandratos reflects on the plethora of joys, pains, ownerships, references, anxieties, comforts, languages, forms, and more to be found in non-binary plays.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:13AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
This year's honorees include costume designers Fred Voelpel and Dede Ayite, scenic designer Eugene Lee, and visual artist Michael Curry.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:58PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
From a Conan Doyle-inspired inquiry to an Emmett Till trilogy, from a Baroque opera to an Alaskan Tlingit journey, here are some shows I'd put on my hypothetical theatre calendar.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:41AMMonday, October 3, 2022
October recalls the extraordinary career of a 19th-century performer, the founding of both an Indianapolis institution and a West Coast bilingual theatre project, as well as the premieres of…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:27PMIn excerpts from a new book, the British-born director talks about childhood mysteries, the theatre buildings he's worked in, and his fascination with erasure and contradictions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:08PMThe $25,000 award is intended both to honor a deserving artist and to keep a spotlight on persistent gender-based inequity in the field.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:28AMThe company has uncovered 9 overlooked but eminently producible plays by women through history, from Aphra Behn to Wakako Yamauchi.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:04AMO’Neal will receive a $10,000 stipend, travel and housing reimbursement, and will teach a playwriting course and develop a comedy about black women in reality television; Finalists of the …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:24AMAnderson will receive the $50,000 award for her play 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home' at an event on Oct. 24.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:57AMFriday, September 30, 2022
The playwright talks with director Chi-wang Yang about his new play ‘Scene With Cranes,’ about making theatre in a bar, and about the unacknowledged grief of the world.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:25PMAn attorney on the frontline of Native American rights, and the playwright of 'Sovereignty' and 'Manahatta,' Nagle will create a work inspired by stories of the region.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:14PMThe founder of Chelsea Theater Center was a force from the 1960s onward, doing plays no one else would do and encouraging similar boldness in his colleagues.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:18AMFrom our first meeting, he opened me up to a panorama of possibilities, not only in the theatre but in myself.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:17AMThursday, September 29, 2022
With a Broadway debut about disabled folks and their caretakers, the playwright of 'Sanctuary City' and 'Ironbound' is again writing at the margins.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:57PMA new play at Barrington Stage Company, about a class-riven romance among 2 wheelchair and text-to-speech users, also has plenty of disabled talent backstage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:23PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
After 3 years as artistic director at Arizona Theatre Company, Daniels will lead new-play development at the Sarasota theatre, particularly of work dealing with addiction and recovery.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:45AMGearing up for their 6th collaboration at the Goodman, the playwright and director reflect on an artistic partnership that has spanned 25 years.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:14AMReaders respond to a review of a book about making it bleed onstage, and a theatre leader takes issue with a recent report on a necessarily changing field.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:30AMTuesday, September 27, 2022
The company is launching another fellowship program to lower barriers for playwrights entering the industry.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:47PMIn this episode, Brian talks to a longtime friend and colleague about her circuitous path from and back to the Pine Tree State, and what that journey has meant for her as a writer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:08PMOn this episode we broke the news that Nottage's 'Clyde's' will be the most-produced play of the season, then welcomed her and fellow prolific scribe Gunderson on to talk shop.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:02PMFriday, September 23, 2022
Named for Coho Productions' late artistic director, Philip Cuomo, the new collective also includes Third Rail Rep and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:40PMA mix of familiar and new titles, of challenge and comfort, characterizes this year's lists, the first this magazine has done since 2019.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:09PMEach of the inaugural recipients of these grants, designed to support a diverse pool of designers in all disciplines, will receive grants up to $15,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:40AMThe fellowship. designed to support young producers of color, grants the recipient a $10,000 stipend and a $20,000 budget to cover the costs of developing a new show.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:27AMThursday, September 22, 2022
This busy writer-director, known for new works, is now staging 'A Raisin in the Sun' at the Public, but it's more a case of continuing a legacy of Black iconoclasm than a new career phase.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:10PMHow a small theatre in Phoenix, now embarking on an all-BIPOC season, is challenging its local colleagues to do better.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PMThis year's cohort, its first at full capacity since COVID, includes such familiar theatre names as Dave Malloy, Anne Washburn, and Sanaz Toossi.
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