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Miranda has been recognized for his exemplary record of putting performers of color in the room where it happens.
11 directing fellows have been selected from hundreds of applicants.
The season will include contemporary plays and musicals and a short play festival.
Theatre practitioners who met in Milwaukee for the Intersections Summit, a three-day conference on community justice work. What did they take home with them?
Our engagement efforts will fall short if we don't ask who we're serving and why---and consider a new model to reach new goals.
An EDI consciousness is already fundamental to the work of some theatre practitioners, but it has expanded exponentially.
"It was a strange task to write about these artists formally," confesses Madeline Sayet, a writer and director who contributed a story about the heartening ascendance of fellow Native Americ…
Jo Cattell will be in residence at the theatre this season and assist on a production.
The winning plays by grade school and high school students will be performed as part of the Marilyn Bianchi Festival this summer.
One theatre writer (who's white) says that it's disingenuous to have all-white casts, white directors, and white designers for plays that supposedly examine white privilege.
The season will include plays from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Lucas Hnath as well as 'Falsettos' and the return of fan favorite Libby Whittemore.
The funding will support commissions from emerging playwrights Joanna Garner, Lily Houghton, and C.A. Johnson.
The service organization recognizes theatre artists and companies working in the TYA field.
"I also think that he was a playwright who was very confident in his interpretation of the play. I once heard him say, 'No actor or director has ever shown me anything in one of my plays tha…
It was, in her words, "a fucking compulsion," says Tommy, a mixed-race native of Cape Town who came to Massachusetts with her family at age 15. "I believed the lie that the reason that there…
Maroney will join the theatre following a six-month search.
She brings an administrative brain to a small, hardy new-play company on the verge of an upgrade.
Do a crop of inward-looking new plays about white privilege represent a step forward, or are they an expression of privilege in themselves?
Hedges will begin the post in Maine next month.
"Cell phones in theatres may no longer be taboo. Well, at least in this case, where 12 Broadway theatres now offer GalaPro, a new app that expands accessibility services by providing audio d…
The season will include a remount of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' and a mdoernized Hedda Gabler by Lucy Kirkwood.
The company's general manager will step into the role next month.
The application deadline is May 4 for theatre leaders (including a journalist) based in New York City or St. Louis.
As a director, he's interested in how people act on each other; he also has a visual instinct. Both came in handy for 'Three Tall Women.'
How the Tony-nominated director makes space for women of color in the theatre, not just herself.
