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A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions from late May and early June.
Brian talks to the Minneapolis-based playwright about learning from criticism, connecting with collaborators, and finding his voice.
Last month's D.C.-area gathering of makers and advocates of theatre for young people offered a radical yet knowing optimism about the industry and the art form at an especially urgent time.
In a change addressing significant financial challenges for the small nonprofit, DCT will scale back productions and pause its education program.
The 2025-26 cohort of Jose SolÃs's residency comprises 12 writers in a yearlong partnership with three organizations dedicated to creating opportunities for theatre critics of color.
The festival, running June 3-8 at the Brick, plans to feature work by trans artists for trans audiences.
De Leon succeeds Lily Tung Crystal and interim artistic director Katie Bradley, and will lead the Midwest's largest Asian American theatre company alongside managing director Ann Thu T. Pham.
Michael Urie and the festival's co-founders are bringing Pride Plays to the nation's capital for this year's 50th anniversary of WorldPride.
The late playwright of 'Love! Valour! Compassion!' gets an official marker in New York City.
Taylor Mac, whose new play 'Prosperous Fools' is loosely inspired by 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme,' and Jeffrey Hatcher, who has a new adaptation of 'The Imaginary Invalid,' talk comedy, cathar…
A new Wallace Foundation report studies the impact of culture-centered, community-based youth arts programs.
Having served since 2022, he will leave to begin a new chapter of public service, including studies in urban planning.
His plans to trim $11.5 million from the state budget would eviscerate the state's new Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, designed to help arts employers pay workers a fair wage.
The inaugural four-day festival (running June 26-29) will showcase queer creators of color in dance, theatre, and collaborative artmaking.
The scholarship, administered by Theatre Communications Group, supports early-career costume designers through professional development.
The most recent edition of South Coast Rep's annual play-development gathering showcased moving works about loss and reupped the theatre's long-standing commitment to emerging writers.
Reading Sarah Ruhl's book, learning from both educators and students, and celebrating graduates.
The business case for a more diverse American theatre is a distraction from our core human and artistic values, which is the ground we must stand on in the fight for DEI.
One of the late composer's musical theatre successors pays tribute to his elder's craft, creativity, and unflappable professionalism.
A Broadway show about the making of a historic record in Cuba doesn't sacrifice the authenticity of its deep cultural context"or its original language.
Gaven D. Trinidad's 'Learning to Read by Moonlight' is being produced by 2 companies and staged at 3 different Boston locations, giving its themes of immigrant belonging a wide and hyper-loc…
A feature on rethinking board governance, and deep dive into a community-centered play.
Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities.
Long, who started on May 19, will lead TCG's fundraising efforts
In a recent keynote address at the New School, a Russian-born theatremaker stirred graduates with a message of hope in the face of despair.
