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John Earl Jelks and Colleen Zenk will play parents of a photographer played by Corbin Bleu in Michael Slade's marriage-minded new play "Family Shots," at Ohio's Human Race Theatre Company.
New Jersey-based actress Michèle LaRue talks about the process of turning Victorian-era short stories into solo shows that conjure an era of parlor entertainment.
"You Are My Sunshine," a new play by Kelli Kerslake Colaco, gets a reading by the new San Francisco collective The Alma Theatre Company. The playwright talks.
Single tickets for all titles in Pioneer Theatre Company's 2014-15 season went on sale Oct. 1 in Salt Lake City. The slate includes the first world premiere in artistic director Karen Azenbe…
Utah actor-playwright Carleton Bluford talks about the inspiration for his new play "Mama," getting a 2015 premiere by Salt Lake City's Plan-B Theatre.
Chicago theatre artists Corliss Preston, John Slywka and Michelle Shupe are creating a CD mixing the words of Shakespeare's women with sound effects and music.
The creative team of Pioneer Theatre Company's upcoming world premiere staging of "Alabama Story" has been announced.
Playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach talks about the inspiration for his new play "A Neighbor in the Area," getting reading with Reed Birney, Heather Lind and Nick Westrate.
A look at Mark St. Germain's new romantic comedy, "Dancing Lessons," getting its world premiere Aug. 13 at Barrington Stage Company.
Playwright Roger Weisman talks about his new Albee-esque sci-fi play "How Do You Say Mother in Esperanto?," part of FringeNYC.
Chicago playwright Brett Neveu discusses his past, his process and his current project, the NYC premiere of his acclaimed play "The Opponent," by A Red Orchid Theatre.
Actress-playwright Jenny Mercein talks about her solo show "Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge," inspired by her own coming of age and the life and death of the iconic Pennsylvania resort.
Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian, the award-winning musical comedy writers whose "Murder For Two" completed an eight-month Off-Broadway run on June 29, have a new musical waiting in the wings.
Playwright and director Charles Morey talks about "The Granite State," his Cowardesque new American comedy premiering July 23-Aug. 3 at Peterborough Players, his first and continuing artisti…
Playwright Sean Grennan talks about his new comedy-drama "The Tin Woman," about a heart transplant recipient meeting the late donor's family, getting its world premiere by Wisconsin's Penins…
The fourth and final reading in the 2014 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays, Matte O'Brien's "The Wonderful Mr. & Mrs. O'Leary," will be heard 7 PM June 25-26 at the TACT Studio in Manhattan. …
Cori Thomas talks about her approach to playwriting and what led her to conjure "When January Feels Like Summer," now in its final weekend at Ensemble Studio Theatre.
The new play "Alabama Story," a finalist in the 2014 National Playwrights Conference, gets a Manhattan reading June 18-19 prior to its world premiere by Utah's Pioneer Theatre Company.
Broadway's Robert Creighton sings and dances in a June 13 New York City reading of the musical "Cagney," the Carbonell Award-winning show that he co-wrote with Peter Colley and Christopher M…
Casting has been announced for the June 11-12 NewTACtics reading of "A Public Education," Jeff Talbott's peek inside the faculty lounge of an American high school, presented by Off-Broadway'…
A look at the four titles in the newTACTics Festival of New Plays, a series of readings by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
In honor of Cole Porter's birthday on June 9, a look at the forgotten musical "You Never Know," which was revised in the 1980s and '90s.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced the titles, writers, directors and actors of the 2014 Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, launching this week in Montgomery, AL.
A chat with playwright James Bosley, artistic director of NYC's UP Theater Company, which is premiering his "Broad Channel" this month.
An interview with singer Sara Zahn on the occasion of her May revival of "The Cahn Film Festival," her Sammy Chan cabaret at the Metropolitan Room.