61 stories by "American Theatre"
The NY-based company will develop new works by Brooke Berman, Kenny Finkle and Kate Moira Ryan.
The Baltimore theatre teams with the Spanish embassy to fund development of a bilingual play by the Madrid-based writer.
The Los Angeles ensemble's 2015 season will include works from resident playwrights Liz Shannon, Adam Hahn and Nathan Wellman.
Fighting for freedom of expression in high school theatres can be a complicated cause, but it's clearly a fight that matters for all theatre artists.
Playwrights superimpose ancient myths over contemporary concerns, in a theatrical alchemy that makes the old seem new again---and the new seem timeless.
With an emphasis on local talent and on presenting a range of classics---including all by its namesake playwright---Cincy Shakes has built both its repertoire and its reputation.
The oldest theatre in America will present 'High Society,' 'Sister Act,' 'Harvey' and 'Peter and the Starcatcher' next season.
2015 kicks off with (mostly) affairs of the heart, both strange and intimate, on canvases big and small, in tones both light and dark.
Mike Berkson has cerebral palsy, Tim Wambach has been his personal aide for years---and the two have got some funny stories to share.
From Gerswhin to Lin-Manuel Miranda, a look at January on stages past.
How one small London theatre has rallied the big ones to recognize and address the gender gap on U.K. stages.
Some theatres are finding ways to coach audiences into the world of the play before the curtain ever goes up.
Aaron Holland's new musical expands a minor character from 'War and Peace' into an inspiration for a full-blown musical about a modern-day daydreamer.
No one sets out to do average work in the theatre, but to do anything exceptionally well requires prioritizing---and some balls are going to drop.
There's a lot more in this issue than our special section on training for social activism.
It's the New Year's Eve edition of Offscript! We look at the big theatre headlines of 2014, as well as the shows that we loved.
In 'Steal Heaven' at San Diego REP, Herbert Siguenza imagines what '60s icon Abbie Hoffman would think of our iPhone-and-drone age.
The Minneapolis presenter tries a membership model for offerings by its 15 resident companies. Netflix for the theatre, anyone?
Twelve-hour Greek plays, white face, drag queens, gender parity...the contributors and editors of "American Theatre" reminisce on what they loved most in the theatre in 2014.
A few holiday leftovers linger, but the New Year ushers in both sobering drama and fairy-tale whimsy, musical excursions and comic dances with death.
The backstage drama at D.C.'s influential Jewish theatre has been as riveting, and as disputed, as anything on its stage.
An eight-foot-tall puppet Cruella de Vil and mod hair anchored Children's Theatre of Charlotte and Imagination Stage's co-production of "101 Dalmatians."
Artists at Arden Theatre, Synetic Theater and Theatre Britain talk putting an original, non-Disney spin on "Beauty and the Beast."
As he gears up for another festival January, the downtown impresario weighs in on a busy and changing scene.
The closure of the 29-year-old Arizona company leaves a significant artistic and financial hole in the local theatre ecology.
