Wednesday, May 16, 2018
by Brad Erickson
Earlier this spring, our Theatre Bay Area family suffered a devastating jolt in the loss of our former Managing Director, Dana Harrison. Dana passed away, with little warni…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 09:21PMby Lauren Spencer
The phone rang at 5 pm. Fontana Butterfield picked up to find Shotgun Player’s Artistic Director, Patrick Dooley, on the other end. The actor she was understudying in th…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 03:11PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
THEATRE BAY AREA NAMES DALE ALBRIGHT
AS NEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR
(San Francisco, CA) - Theatre Bay Area is happy to announce that long-time TBA staffer Dale Albright is the organization’s…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:56PMby Rotimi Agbabiaka
When Lisa Evans makes their directorial debut with the world premiere of WAAFRIKA 123 at TheatreFIRST, they will be fulfilling a dream that is as much personal and polit…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 06:09PMby Velina Brown
Q: I really want to do stunts for film and television but I have no idea how to get started. How do I break in?
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SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 05:57PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
[Editor’s note: Online registration and group rates for the 2018 Theatre Bay Area Annual Conference end April 27. Don't miss out on your opportunity to share ideas, congregate with peers, …
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:32AMby Sam Hurwitt
In January, American Conservatory Theater finally announced who would succeed outgoing artistic director Carey Perloff at the end of the current season: Pam MacKinnon, a Tony…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:23AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
Q: Okay, it happened again. I read a scene for this audition. When I finished the director shook my hand, told me what I great job I did, was so complimentary, actually used the word “fabu…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:09PMby Emily Wilson
Ofra Daniel, an Israeli native and founder of the Jewish Circle Theatre in Berkeley, wasn’t seeing a lot of young people at the theatre—hers or others. Because she love…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 01:56PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
by Nicole Gluckstern
There are many benefits to honing and updating one’s theatre-making skills. Attending a class keeps the creative muscles limber and prepared. Branching in new or chal…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 05:37PMby Rotimi Agbabiaka
John Holden loves the environment and the arts so it makes sense that he is a leader in the field of cultural ecology, which he describes as the way arts organizations i…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 04:42AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Stand up for the arts!
March 13 is national Arts Advocacy Day when hundreds of arts supporters, including TBA’s executive director, will be gathering in Washington, DC to press Congress t…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:23PMby Lauren Spencer
In the summer of 2017, MTV made headlines when President Chris McCarthy announced that they would be shifting to “gender-neutral” awards at the MTV Movie and TV awards…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 03:01PMby Velina Brown
Q: I have been involved with a local community theater group for about eight years and was recently cast in a show in a role I really wanted. I've worked with everyone […
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:49PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
by: Kim Tran
“What are theatres about?” asks SK Kerastas, Artistic Producer at California Shakespeare Theatre.
It’s midweek and already dark outside by the time a small handful of p…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 04:10PMby Velina Brown
Q: “I’m finding the more successful I am with keeping busy working on stage, the harder it is on my personal life off-stage. I know some [people] enjoy the opport…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 04:00PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
by David John Chavez
The very nature of an actor is to bring attention to oneself. An actor interprets life for an audience, and has the power to enrapture with their presence, anger with t…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 01:20PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
by Lauren Spencer
Editor’s Note: Happy Valentines Day from Theatre Bay Area! This is the first in our two-part Love and Art series. Look out for The Business of Show Biz in the Feb 21 iss…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 07:15PMby Rotimi Agbabiaka
In all her years as a tax-preparer, Diana Grenier has never seen this many people so on top of getting their taxes done.
“When we hit this point in the year peo…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 07:15PMFriday, February 2, 2018
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About the Position
THEATRE BAY AREA (TBA) seeks a Managing Director to serve on the organization’s leadership team, partnering to shape and exe…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:48PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
by Sam Hurwitt
After two years as managing director of Theatre Bay Area, Rachel L. Fink heads off to Chicago in February to become the new executive director of Lookingglass Theatre Company…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 09:03PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
by Brad Erickson
Brad Erickson, TBA executive director and official proponent for the 2018 Arts and Homelessness Measure
As you may have heard, the coalition that drove forward San…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 10:37PMThursday, January 4, 2018
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THEATRE BAY AREA ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE OF MANAGING DIRECTOR RACHEL L. FINK
(Sa…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:00PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
by Velina Brown
Q: A while ago I was cast in an AEA show with an actor who took it on themselves to give notes to their fellow actors after opening. This would happen during the fight call,…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:00PMby Brad Erickson
It’s that time of the year when newspaper columnists and media pundits love to look back and assess the twelve months just passed or make assured predictions for the ye…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 08:00PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
by Emily Wilson
On Sunday, October 8, Craig Miller, artistic director of 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, had walked in the door, returning from rehearsals for the upcoming production of…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:45PMBy Velina Brown
Editor’s Note: Our Business of Show Biz maven, Velina Brown, is on vacation this month. So, we’re bringing back one of her popular columns about how to reconnect with lo…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:42PMMonday, December 4, 2017
by Rotimi Agbabiaka
The scene at the annual Theatre Bay Area General Auditions can best be described as charged. The air is fraught with the nervous excitement of hundreds of hopefuls, audi…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 02:51PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
by Nina Solomita
From dazzling extravaganzas with huge casts to operating-on-a-shoestring productions in small black-box venues, the San Francisco Bay Area is bursting with theatrical activ…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 07:17PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
by Lauren Spencer
When Rachel Fink began to climb the career ladder her biggest challenge seemed to be learning to navigate the process. The current managing director of Theatre Bay Area re…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 07:55PMby Velina Brown
Q: I saw the letter you posted on Facebook regarding the show about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. After reading the letter I could see what you and the group women who…
SOURCE: Theatre Bay Area at 07:54PM 
