384 stories by "Courtney Kochuba"
Last week, our Marketing team made their annual journey to the south for the Southeastern Theatre Conference. This year, SETC was hosted in Chattanooga, TN – and believe us, it was …
Join Carey Perloff at her only Los Angeles appearance to celebrate her recent publication, Beautiful Chaos: A Life in Theater. Perloff will be interviewed by Sasha Anawalt, arts critic an…
The differences between UK and US theatre can be debated at length. The types of audiences, acceptance of subject matters, even beverages in the theatre. But lately, one new subject has come…
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery premieres tonight at McCarter Theatre Center. Having had its world premiere in Washington D.C. at Arena Stage, Baskerville is an ada…
Congratulations to all of the 2015 Olivier Award nominees, especially Blithe Spirit, Skylight, The Nether, and A Streetcar Named Desire! For the full list of nominees, please click here. Pho…
A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, Alan Alda has been entertaining audiences for decades. His charisma, charm and, of course, the memory of his role as Hawkeye in the 1970&…
The cast of the recent Broadway revival of Side Show will reunite tonight at 54 Below to perform “The Cast of Side Show: Â Added Attractions.” Performances take place at 7pm an…
Staff Picks is a regular series where Samuel French staff members get the chance to chat about their favorite musicals or plays.
The post The Darker Side of Comedy: The Debate Society’…
Roundabout Theater Company announced on Monday that Oscar-nominee Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut this fall in a revival of Harold Pinter’s Old Times. Douglas Hodge, the Tony A…
Roundabout Theatre Company’s On The Twentieth Century, starring Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth and Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher, has postponed its opening night fro…
Roundabout Theatre Company’s On the Twentieth Century will continue this weekend without it’s leading man, Tony Award-nominated Peter Gallagher. Gallagher fell ill on February…
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Mark your calendar! The Drama League has announced the date for their 81st Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony:  May 15, 2015. The ceremony will take place in the Broadway Ballroom at …
A small town arts council has $20,000 to award to a local artist with an "under-represented American voice." Should they choose the teacher/painter of modest talent or the self-taught artist…
Joshua Harmon’s award-winning comedy, Bad Jews, will be transferring to the West End’s Arts Theatre this year. Performances begin on March 8, with an official opening on March 25…
Yesterday, Columbia University and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith announced that Suzan-Lori Parks’ critically acclaimed epic play, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 &3…
The Dramatists Guild of America will be holding its annual award ceremony tonight, February 23, at The Harvard Club with David Henry Hwang as host. Several playwrights and composers will be …
More than 15 artists will join Tony Award-winning Beth Leavel in 54 Sings Mack & Mabel, featuring songs from the acclaimed Jerry Herman musical. Directed and hosted by Phil Geoffrey Bond…
SF Staffer Coryn Carson chats about MIRROR, MIRROR, one of her favorite plays by the award-winning Sarah Treem.
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Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s beautiful classic, The Secret Garden, will be coming to Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall next February. The announcement was made through a pr…
The New School for Drama announced today the launch of the Arts Integrity Initiative, a new project aimed at supporting and protecting the work of artists at every level of society and pr…
All aboard! Roundabout Theatre Company’s On The Twentieth Century, starring Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth and Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher, begins previews on Broa…
Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts announced Monday that six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and her husband, Tony nominee Will Swenson, will co-star in Eugene O’Neil…
Larry Kramer, playwright of the award-winning The Normal Heart, will be honored by the Gay Men’s Health Crisis during their annual spring gala on March 23. The volunteer group, which g…
Ken Ludwig is a funny man – and he knows how to make people laugh. Two years ago, he shared his love for the master of comedic playwrighting, William Shakespeare, in an engaging, acces…
