Echo Theater Company Announces 2017 Season
The 20th anniversary season will include three world premieres, LABFest 2017, and a short play festival.
The 20th anniversary season will include three world premieres, LABFest 2017, and a short play festival.
On this week's podcast, director Lisa Portes stopped by to discuss Latinx theatre in Chicago, and directing work for young audiences. Plus, the editors discuss the responses we've been getti…
The program will commission and develop over 25 original plays and musicals about politics.
Haupt steps down after leading the National Music Theater Conference for 40 years.
Playwrights and artistic directors share more fears, hopes, challenges, plans, and self-examination in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Latinx theatre as we know it in the U.S. is only half a century old, but its roots are deep and its future boundless.
Founded a decade apart and now merged, Pregones and Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre keep the cart rolling.
The NYC-based initiative isn't just scoring productions for Latinx playwrights---it's hoping to make their work bloom and plant seeds for more.
Working Latinx actors discuss how far the theatre industry has come and the ways it can still grow.
Latino, Latina/o, or Latinx? We heard good arguments for and against them all, and opted for both greater inclusion and typographical clarity.
We started as a lab in the 1980s. Now we run a multi-theatre center dedicated to reflecting L.A.'s diversity.
More than a mere play collection, the author's new anthology is a meta-meditation on identity, memory, and meaning.
Luis Valdez's company retains both its Chicano identity and its broader mission. Next: the return of the troupe's most famous creation, 'Zoot Suit.'
Next season, the San Francisco theatre will produce plays by Mia Chung and Christopher Chen.
Expanded empathy and sharper edges, new voices and new audiences, are on the agenda for the nation's playwrights and artistic directors.
From classic musicals to pantos, from Pawtucket, R.I., to Malvern, Pa., it is another wide-ranging week for theatre.
Forget 'A Christmas Carol.' These festive family shows prove there are plenty of ways to deck the halls.
What can the theatre bring to this moment of national uncertainty? Our art, our activism, and each other.
The Israeli-born Boston artist has made translating and presenting works by living international writers a mission.
Speaking up to bigotry and coming together in the face of uncertainty are two natural roles for the theatre.
The ninth season at the Atlanta theatre will feature classic musicals and new adaptations.
The residency will allow three playwrights to develop and present work at ACT's Strand Theater.
From chimney sweeps to dancing tea pots, from Chicago to Cincinnati, it is another varied week for theatre.
Western colonizers thought Shakespeare proved their cultural superiority, but a new book explores what his plays have meant to the colonized.
The leader will join the company in January 2017.