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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Race, Mystery, RBG, Opera: I’ve Got a Little List by American Theatre Editors

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 09:41AM
Monday, October 3, 2022

This Month in Theatre History by American Theatre Editors

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 02:27PM

Les Waters: Theatre Spaces and Thin Places by American Theatre Editors

In 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 12:08PM

TheFrontOffice Foundation Launches Grant for Mid-Career Women Directors by American Theatre Editors

The $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 10:28AM

Hedgepig Releases 3rd Annual Expand the Canon List of Classics by Women by American Theatre Editors

The company has uncovered 9 overlooked but eminently producible plays by women through history, from Aphra Behn to Wakako Yamauchi.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:04AM

Zharia O’Neal Is Sound Theatre’s First William S. Yellow Robe Playwright  by American Theatre Editors

O’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 06:24AM

Christina Anderson Named 2022 Recipient of Annual Horton Foote Prize  by American Theatre Editors

Anderson 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 05:57AM
Friday, September 30, 2022

Octavio Solis, in the Company of His Characters by American Theatre Editors

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 01:25PM

Mary Kathryn Nagle Is First KCRep American Crossroads Resident Playwright  by American Theatre Editors

An 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 12:14PM

Robert Kalfin, Off-Broadway Pioneer, Made a Home for Big Risks by American Theatre Editors

The 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 09:18AM

Bob Kalfin and Me: A Friendship Over Half a Century by American Theatre Editors

From our first meeting, he opened me up to a panorama of possibilities, not only in the theatre but in myself.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:17AM
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Martyna Majok’s ‘Cost of Living,’ in This Economy? by American Theatre Editors

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 01:57PM

‘All of Me’: A Rom-Com That Represents, and Not Just Onstage by American Theatre Editors

A 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 01:23PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Sean Daniels Leaves Arizona to Helm Florida Studio Theatre Recovery Project   by American Theatre Editors

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 10:45AM

Gilman and Falls: A Match Made at the Goodman by American Theatre Editors

Gearing 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 10:14AM

Letters to the Editor: Long Wharf, Stage Blood by American Theatre Editors

Readers 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 07:30AM
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Playwrights Realm Announces 2022-23 Cohort of Writers by American Theatre Editors

The company is launching another fellowship program to lower barriers for playwrights entering the industry.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:47PM

The Subtext: Callie Kimball’s Maine Event by American Theatre Editors

In 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 05:08PM

Offscript: Most-Produced With Lynn Nottage & Lauren Gunderson by American Theatre Editors

On 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 04:02PM
Friday, September 23, 2022

3 Portland, Ore. Companies Join to Form Cuomo Theatre Collaborative by American Theatre Editors

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 03:40PM

‘Clyde’s’ Is Most-Produced Play, and Lynn Nottage Most-Produced Playwright, of 2022-23 Season by American Theatre Editors

A 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 01:09PM

November 2022

In My Body No Choice, Molly Smith’s final directorial venture for Arena Stage, eight of America’s most exciting female playwrights share what choice means to them, through the telling of…

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:19AM

October 2022

In My Body No Choice, Molly Smith’s final directorial venture for Arena Stage, eight of America’s most exciting female playwrights share what choice means to them, through the telling of…

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:19AM

7 Early Career Designers Receive 1/52 Project Grants by American Theatre Editors

Each 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 09:40AM

Producer Lamar Richardson Is Named 2022 Front Row Fellow by American Theatre Editors

The 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 09:27AM
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Robert O’Hara Puts Nothing on a Pedestal, Least of All the Canon by American Theatre Editors

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 12:10PM

Arizona’s Stray Cat Asks: Can We Be the Change We Want to See? by American Theatre Editors

How a small theatre in Phoenix, now embarking on an all-BIPOC season, is challenging its local colleagues to do better.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PM

15 Theatre Artists Among 129 MacDowell Resident Fellows by American Theatre Editors

This year's cohort, its first at full capacity since COVID, includes such familiar theatre names as Dave Malloy, Anne Washburn, and Sanaz Toossi.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM

Melis Aker Is Signature Theatre’s Inaugural LaunchPad Resident by American Theatre Editors

The residency includes two $15,000 commissions, a full production, a theatregoing stipend, a writing retreat, mentorship, and more.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:12AM
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Real Talk: Can Broadway Broaden Its Access and Impact? by American Theatre Editors

Broadway producers Ron Simons and Hunter Arnold talk about the changes they've seen (and been a part of) in their field, and point to the changes that are still needed.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:29PM

A Capital Season by American Theatre Editors

Theatre folks from Alaska to Ohio to Misssissippi tell us where they're seeing the most change and what they'd like to see on a stage in the coming season.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:50PM
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2022-2023 BROADWAY SEASON
Jul 10, 2022: Into the Woods - St. James Theatre
Jul 21, 2022: The Kite Runner - Helen Hayes Theatre
Sep 01, 2022: Cost of Living - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Sep 19, 2022: Death of a Salesman - Hudson Theatre
Oct 02, 2022: Leopoldstadt - Longacre Theatre
Oct 06, 2022: 1776 - American Airlines Theatre
Oct 11, 2022: The Piano Lesson - Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Oct 20, 2022: Topdog / Underdog - John Golden Theatre
Oct 27, 2022: Take Me Out - Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Oct 27, 2022: Walking With Ghosts - Music Box Theatre
Nov 03, 2022: Almost Famous - Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Nov 10, 2022: Kimberly Akimbo - Booth Theatre
Nov 17, 2022: & Juliet - Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Nov 17, 2022: & Juliet - Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Nov 20, 2022: KPOP - Circle In The Square
Dec 01, 2022: Ain’t No Mo’ - Belasco Theatre
Dec 04, 2022: A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical - Broadhurst Theatre
Dec 11, 2022: Some Like It Hot - Shubert Theatre
Dec 19, 2022: Between Riverside and Crazy Fall - Helen Hayes Theatre
Dec 20, 2022: The Collaboration - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Mar 26, 2023: Sweeney Todd - Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Apr 13, 2023: Camelot - Vivian Beaumont Theater
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