Madeline Sayet and Tara Moses will join the organization for a nine-month residency.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:25PMGrants for Arts Projects awards span multiple disciplines, including theatre and musical theatre, and range from $10,000 to $100,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:23PMRebuilding will be challenging, but we must embrace abundance and celebrate possibility to create a better vision for the future.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:13PMIn Louisville, the informal Church of Grover's Corners has been reading and relishing 'Our Town' aloud every other month for a few years now.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:00AMThis year's finalists include Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Miranda Rose Hall, Jiehae Park, and Beth Steel.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:21PMThe soul-healing and community-building qualities of children's theatre, a key part of the Federal Theatre Project, should be central to any new deal for the arts.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:38PMGrowing calls for government arts support are welcome, even if the historical model of the 1930s is an imprecise analogy.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:36PMThe NY Observer's drama critic, a Brit, brought an outsider's inquisitiveness to the American theatre, as well as principled grouchiness.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:43PMWendy C. Goldberg's TheFrontOffice Foundation will award money to folks impacted by the industry shutdown.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:01AMOrtega-Murphy will succeed Maya Choldin, who stepped down in October 2020 to accept a position at Theatre Calgary.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:14PMDramaturg Doug Langworthy shone his light on the work of others, but it finally couldn't lead him out of his own private darkness.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:21PMManaging director Mark Folkes will step down in April, while Eboni Bell will be promoted to inclusion, engagement, and training director in February.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:22PMCompared to TRG Arts' last study, U.S. companies are pushing back plans by an average of almost 4 more months.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:11PMFrom the 'West Side Story' tour to television to work with George C. Wolfe, this performer/choreographer has followed each next step where it led.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:25AMThe theatre's new literary magazine features writing by many artists, as well as many administrators, looking inward at the institution at a time of challenge and change.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:07AMThe pandemic has given the Chicago playwright a chance to step back and rethink his approach---and he hopes theatres are doing the same.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:21PMIn this excerpt from André Gregory's 'This Is Not My Memoir,' he recounts his formative months at the Berliner Ensemble.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:36PMLast fall we learned a new way to make theatre, not only with our students but with the audience and the community.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:09PMThe organization will partner with Hancock Shaker Village, a 750-acre living history museum, to present a summer slate under a tent.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PMOther AudienceView findings: Many theatregoers would pay higher prices to offset lower capacity, though most aren't ready to go back till June at the earliest.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:39AMAfter an extension with the city of Los Angeles, the organization will now manage the venue through 2056.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:58AMThe free festival, running Jan. 21-24, will be presented virtually for the first time.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:55AMThe theatre has postponed its production of August Wilson's 'Two Trains Running' and will offer Windy City premiere of 'Theatre for One.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:44AMThe New York Times' newest critic at large thinks about culture both broadly and personally, and strives to deliver dialogue, not a verdict.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:59AMThe Chicago company hopes to reopen in the fall with a world premiere from Joshua Allen.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:21PMDaniella De Jesús is named grand prize winner as Miki Kim and Laura Winters are also honored.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:30PMCostume World Theatrical, the field's largest wardrobe supplier, is yet another business left hanging by the pandemic.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:08PMThe three co-producing theatres will commission works on the theme of consequences.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:08PMThis month, a check-in with the playwrights who first called in last March to see how they've fared in the intervening 10 months.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:02PMNearly 100 Black theatres will receive 1- or 2-year grants, ranging in size from $10,000 to $150,000.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMJarrett's promotion coincides with additional leadership title changes in anticipation of new executive director J.S. May's 2023 retirement.
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