G.W. 'Skip' Mercier, Tony-Nominated Designer, 1954-2021
A versatile designer who studied at UC Berkeley and Yale, he designed everywhere from Seattle Rep and the O'Neill Theatre Center to Broadway.
A versatile designer who studied at UC Berkeley and Yale, he designed everywhere from Seattle Rep and the O'Neill Theatre Center to Broadway.
Building bridges between young artists and theatre institutions in the Twin Cities, she also wrote smart, heartful plays and adaptations.
Behind and beyond recent reckonings at the city's theatres are countless tales of exploitation, harm, and silencing---but it's not too late for change.
Using the virtual platform Gather.Town, Lucky Plush Productions crafted a virtual city-wide arts festival that opened the door for potential future expansion.
As passionate an advocate as she was a cutting critic of mediocrity, she wrote richly theatrical plays but is best known for deep-dive biographies.
While many theatres scaled back operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some young companies have invested in spaces and planted community roots.
An awards ceremony will be scheduled for a later date to bestow each writer with a $20,000 cash prize.
The Rochester, N.Y., company will hire an outside firm and begin a national search for Cuddy's successor.
Co-artistic director Tamilla Woodard will move into an advisory position as she takes a job at Yale University.
On a new record, singer Eleri Ward reclaims Sondheim's melodies from his thorny harmonies, creating something new that's also true to the original.
While the report shows some progress, it also calls into question the field's funding disparities and the scarcity mindset.
Marisa Carr, Keelay Gipson, Isaac Gómez, and Stacey Rose will join the Chicago company as artistic director Ken-Matt Martin reimagines the program.
A choir founded during the AIDS crisis stages a revivifying concert amid another pandemic, as longtime leader Michael McElroy moves on.
A new Philadelphia production offers a timely, often disconcerting look at Antoinette Nwandu's play about police violence, soon headed for Broadway.
After a hiatus, the critics return with a look back at a tumultuous year and a look ahead to reopening on Broadway and beyond.
The stage and screen giant, recently appointed dean of Howard University's College of Fine Arts, looks back---and ahead---on an extraordinary career.
As students call out inequities in theatre training institutions, educators of color can find themselves with additional labor and scarce support.
A year after issuing them, theatre student and alumni organizers discuss the still unfolding results of their anti-racist calls to action for university training programs.
This month, a talk with with a playwriting legend, whose most apocalyptic recent works are being released this week as podcasts.
When Mac Rogers and I met our playwriting hero, Wallace Shawn, we were honored---and confronted anew with his devastating plays.
Though much talk has surrounded possible federal funding, let's imagine a world based in repertory theatre and funding from the state level.
My time at this storied Florida retreat was both relaxing and productive---and I was ready for the bugs this time.
Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko and Ayla Xuan Chi Sullivan will receive $5,000 to develop new work thanks to a new fellowship for Black trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) playwrights.
Theatres from New York to Houston, brought together by Chicago director Chuck Smith, are joining forces to advance and advocate for their work.
The company is offering a total of 48 fellowships in 20 different areas of the theatre field.