#TCG15 Day 1: "I Identify as Billionare"
At the opening gathering of Theatre Communications Group's 2015 National Conference, the topics include race, Cleveland, and performance by any means necessary.
At the opening gathering of Theatre Communications Group's 2015 National Conference, the topics include race, Cleveland, and performance by any means necessary.
In his new book, former Kennedy Center impresario Michael Kaiser argues that the future of the arts lies with quality, subsidy, and daring---all of which are in dangerously short supply.
The two composers met recently to talk music, theatre, and how they clear their conscience.
Bob Kelly and Sam Chanse, Ben Wexler and Mark Sonnenblick, and Shaina Taub and Jen Silverman will develop new musicals in New Haven this summer.
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the seven recipients of the Impact Awards, who will each receive $80,000.
At the TCG National Conference this week, James Houghton, Lear deBessonet and Rhodessa Jones will be recognized for their theatrical achievements.
The son of Geffen founder Gilbert Cates will follow in his father's footsteps and lead the Los Angeles theatre.
He's happily played underdogs and second bananas, but in a new musical from Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, the 'Pitch Perfect' star at last has a role with range---and not just vocally speaking.
American Theatre Wing's program for new arrivals teaches things they didn't learn in school.
The American theatre as we know it didn't just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it.
The October fest draws national companies to create work that will sprawl through various locations in the UC San Diego area.
The roster includes an improvisational musical, satire, comedy and drama.
Playwrights at Erik Ehn's annual Texas retreat don't speak for 10 days. New writing rushes into the void, along with a sense of community.
How does HFF, now in its sixth year, stack up to other fringe fests? Sources say: comparable to NYC, but no match for Perth.
Robert Askins, writer of 'Hand to God,' talks with David Javerbaum, author of 'An Act of God,' about religion, theatre, and the music of comedy.
From the Silicon Valley to Kansas City, from mysteries to puppet shows, it is another wide-ranging week for theatre across the nation.
Anne Washburn's new play at Soho Rep, about a troubled tech rehearsal, puts a fictional backstage crew and the show's real backstage crew into a new kind of dialogue.
A response to Dana Dusbiber's wrongheaded 'Washington Post' column arguing that dead, white Shakespeare shouldn't be taught anymore.
The roster includes a newly devised version of 'Frankenstein' and a new musical, 'Oedipus Rox.'
The roster includes Stephen Schwartz, Tennessee Williams, Brian Friel and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This week, teacher/performer/author Kameron Steele stops by to talk about a new book of Suzuki's writing, and the editors argue about the Tonys and Bitter Lemons' pay-for-reviews gambit.
In conjunction with a touring exhibit of the painter's works, eight new plays inspired by her art are on offer---including one by a distant relative.
After a three-decade run at the magazine he helped to found, O'Quinn will be succeeded by a current senior editor.
This small two-stage theatre produces a wide-ranging season and operates 50 weeks out of the year.
The Utah theatre's season will an NNPN rolling world premiere by Steve Yockey, and three locally grown works.