Friday, July 15, 2022
The staff, board, and artists at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre share the good, bad, and ugly of what it is taking to transform their institution.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PMThursday, July 14, 2022
Actors Theatre of Louisville's artistic director sets the record straight about the status of the Humana Festival and the company's ongoing efforts to match ambition with capacity.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:54PMA seasoned executive leader, he will succeed Susie Medak in a role she's held for 32 years.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PMA new festival set for the fall will feature 6 new works by trans, non-binary, and two-spirit artists, as well as an evening 15 new monologues from the TNB2S+ community.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:48AMThe forces attacking the human rights and free expression of the most marginalized among us know exactly what they're doing, but we have a way to fight back: the stage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, July 13, 2022
As part of THRIVE! program, the grants will provide unrestricted funds to 20 Black theatres, Indigenous theatres, and theatres of color.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:23PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Fair criticism is one thing, but the vitriol directed at the ‘Funny Girl’ star, or at anyone who dared to celebrate her historic casting, felt personal.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PMThe recent unveiling of Alison Saar's sculpture 'To Sit A While' kicked off a national tour to raise awareness of this great American writer and the many who follow in the path she paved.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:07AMMonday, July 11, 2022
Over nearly 5 decades, the co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater has harnessed great if under-acknowledged power, and has felt an accordingly great sense of responsibility.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:01PMFriday, July 8, 2022
The award is dedicated to a theatremaker working to increase Latinx representation and comes with a $5,000 unrestricted grant.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:59PMThe versatile playwright, breakbeat poet, director, and educator takes the lead at the esteemed TYA theatre this month.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:59AMThe musicals-focused company will create a dual leadership model in place as its longtime singular leader, Robb Hunt, retires.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:20AMIn both his work and his writing, the path-breaking English director challenged all of us who make theatre to consider not only how we do it but why.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:31AMAfter 36 years of artistry in the Gulf South, and a move to a permanent space that didn't pan out, the theatre's board president says they have "exhausted all options."
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:14AMThursday, July 7, 2022
This year's conference features plays by Brie Knight, Santiago Tonauac Castro, Ken Kaissar, Ian August, Nimisha Ladva, and Stephanie Kyung Sun Walter.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:11PMJuly features the founding of a few illustrious theatrical organizations, a turn on the burlesque business wheel, a Sam Shepard classic in the remaking, and a powerful advocate for Latino pl…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:59PMThe program will be part of the company's next season in their new building on Third Avenue.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:04PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
Theatremakers Miranda Cornell, Thaddeus McCants, Aileen Wen McGroddy, Attilio Rigotti, Andrew Rodriguez, and Minghao Tu will receive both a stipend and an additional artistic devel…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PMFellows Tania Crescencio (Connectivity), Fatima Dyfan (New Work), and Malaya Press (Development), will each have paid year-long department-specific positions that include benefits and a hous…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:41AMFriday, July 1, 2022
6 writers, 10-minute plays, a 4-night run, the 13th season: how this eminent New York festival celebrating Black dramatists has multiplied its impact.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
Last weekend the seminal New York experimental ensemble feted a formidable legacy of collective creation, cross-pollination, and cultivation of generations of theatremakers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:25PMThe first awards go writers from Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:18AMMonday, June 27, 2022
James Ijames, Kristina Wong, and Sylvia Khoury talk about what inspired their award-worthy plays and how they shaped them.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:39PMPostponed by the pandemic, the latest iteration of Germany’s most famous Passion Play has returned with spectacle and spirit intact, minus some of its nastier legacies.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:26PMThe inaugural cohort includes Philip de Sa e Silva, Emma Y. Lai, Katie Rein, and Sunny Thao.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:36PMA Detroit native, she will join executive artistic director Leah Smith in running the 65-year-old theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:14PM'S D A (Someone Dies Again' may have been built by the Hungarian auteur and the California ensemble in an organic, communitarian way, but that didn't shield them, or audiences, from its howl…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:33AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
The former general manager of Oregon Shakes will join Woolly in an interim capacity this summer, succeeding Emika Abe in the position until a new director is selected.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:32PMThe Making Waves William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Playwright Residency Program will provide a stipend and training for a playwright to develop new work with an intersectional lens.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PMTwo NYC companies have joined forces to support the city's independent theatres and artists through grant-making, fundraising, and real estate challenges.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:18PMThis week, we share our live TCG conference session with arts journalist Sharon Eberson, City Theatre co-artistic director Monteze Freeland, and Quantum Theatre founder Karla Boos.
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