Editor's Note for November
From Young Jean Lee to Roald Dahl, from Shaw to Wedekind, the issue is packed with peril and conflict.
From Young Jean Lee to Roald Dahl, from Shaw to Wedekind, the issue is packed with peril and conflict.
Intending to serve as interim artistic director, McFadden instead oversaw five years of growth for the company, including the building of a new home.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author talks about unsettling his audience and repainting the Muslim image in the West.
Brass tacks and emotional outbursts highlight this week on the nation's theatre podcasts.
A former SEIU organizer takes the helm of the stage union's Western region at a potentially dramatic juncture.
Elements Theatre Company, a theatre company within a Benedictine Christian community, forgoes religious pageantry for a mix of classics and new plays.
The current managing director of the Contemporary American Theatre Festival will bring his new-play passion to Pittsburgh.
The founder of the Off-Off-Broadway mainstay leaves as the theatre plans a move into a new three-theatre complex.
From haunted tours to "Dracula," theatres get in on the Halloween action.
Taking a page from the ensemble-devising book, Woolly Mammoth is launching a new series of workshops, aimed at incorporating audience input into the play development process.
Hosting a full awards ceremony for the first time since 2011, Theatre Philadelphia's local awards shared the love in both competitive and honorary categories.
As a gatekeeper to life in the theatre, Marian Seldes was as generous as she was exacting, as embracing as she was regal.
After six seasons at the helm, Wolf leaves the San Francisco-based company having doubled its budget and stepped up its new-play commitments.
A small North Texas theatre dedicated to African-American voices heads into its 35th year with new leadership and a diverse audience.
The downtown playwright/theatremaker talks about the traps she lays for herself---and for her audiences.
The 136-seat theatre in Pawtucket taps an Off-Broadway veteran to replace David M. Wax.
After 12 years as artistic director of Seattle's second biggest LORT theatre, Beattie will hand the reins to director John Langs.
The late British author revolutionized children's literature with his twisted tales, and they're flourishing anew onstage. What is it about Dahl's world that seems to suit our own?
Theatre Facts 2013 shows steps have been made in the right direction by theatre companies after the Great Recession.
It's not a one-deal-fits-all world anymore, either for theatregoers or theatres.
You've raised money to build and staff your theatre---but without cash reserves, you're just one disaster away from, well, disaster.
In a new installation/show in the Guthrie Theater's Dowling Studio, artifacts of today become archeological curiosities.
Many new-play programs pay for plays get written and developed. How about one that sets aside money for future productions?
Animals and angels, scientists and seers, extraordinary and ordinary folks jostle for attention in this week's sampling of U.S. stage offerings.
Gender parity, theatre awards, the mystery of QR codes and our robot future are some of the themes hit by this week's top podcasts.