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She is directing two productions back to back; here's how she chooses her projects.
Each writer will receive a cash prize and have a play developed at the Bay Area company.
Warsaw just hosted a theatre festival with five women directors and a lot of young, fiery daring. One of the glass-ceiling-breaking women: "I'm trying to sound some kind of alarm"that we sho…
The Playwrights' Center will support the development of new works by Idris Goodwin, May Lee-Yang, and Tori Sampson.
The season offers seven productions, including a musical.
The season will feature two new plays in repertory from Idaho native Samuel D. Hunter and a world premiere by Dwayne Blackaller and Matthew Cameron Clark.
The season will feature the first commission for the company's Problem Play Project, an adaptation of 'The WInter's Tale' by Carlos-Zenen Trujillo.
In speaking truth to power, audacious young directors at a Warsaw new-works showcase conjured bracing theatrical power of their own.
Knowing that you may never get a response is disheartening. Yet many embrace the uncertainty and even lean into it. For those playwrights, rejections become the most common form of communica…
New musicals slated for the summer season include one by Jason Robert Brown and Jonathan Marc Sherman, and one by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, and Jessie Nelson.
In addition to 'Pamela's First Musical,' with book co-written by Christopher Durang and lyrics by David Zippel, the slate also feature a new play by Martin Moran.
The six-show season includes a holiday classic, a romantic comedy, a musical portrait, a thriller, and more.
Is there a way to humanize playwrights' familiar submission/rejection cycle? Remembering that there are human beings on both sides of the exchange can help.
Marc Blitzstein's folk opera will see a return engagement Off Broadway, plus the theatre will present readings of Shakespeare's plays translated into modern English.
The state's largest theatre has cancelled the remainder of its season, citing financial troubles.
The Dallas theatre will produce a world premiere by Nathan Alan Davis and a new adaptation of 'A Doll's House' by artistic director Joanie Schultz.
On this episode, the critics ponder whether some shows are too dated to revive, reach into the mail bag, and tell you which (non-NYC) theatres are worth a visit this summer.
America's self-definition as a nation of immigrants is under threat, as are immigrants themselves. How are U.S. stages and artists dramatizing this moment?
America may call itself a nation of immigrants, but our stories are still scarce on U.S. stages. Let's change that.
Theatres find new ways to relate to immigrant and refugee communities, not only as audiences but as partners.
DACA recipients, feeling unwelcome in the country they call home, claim a home onstage.
What roles can theatre play in the global refugee crisis? Healing, representation"and diversion.
When we practice lifesaving techniques in the pool, we get to choose who is drowning and who is saving. When we get in the boat...
So much American theatre, from O'Neill to Udofia, has been inspired by the stories of playwrights' immigrant parents.
The organization has selected six emerging playwrights.
