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Longtime director of advocacy Laurie Baskin will retire this month, with Erica Lauren Ortiz stepping in as interim advocacy leader, while TCG kicks off a search for 3 top leaders.
As we near TCG's 2024 national conference in Chicago, local critic and journalist Emily McClanathan offers an overview of the diverse offerings of Chicago's many neighborhoods.
New to Chicago, theatre journalist Mike Davis offers his early learnings to visitors to the great theatre town.
As the TCG conference comes to town, artists with work onstage tell us about themselves, their shows, and their city.
A busy director with a new play about Queen Margaret at Hudson Valley Shakes, and a Broadway veteran cooking in 'Hell's Kitchen.'
As either actor or director, often at N.J.'s Two River Theater, he's tackled all 10 plays in August Wilson's canon, but he's not resting on his laurels.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
With our Spring issue, we've turned our focus away from the stage to the house to consider the audience.
While other new-work development hubs have dried up, the Great Plains Theatre Commons continues its convivial creative tradition with local and national support.
The war in Gaza has put a fresh spotlight on the question of what theatres and artists should say or do in response.
A roundtable on how to create radically welcoming access at the theatre.
June looks back on Frederick Douglass's criticisms of blackface, Uta Hagen's legacy, Eugene O'Neill's nine-act 'Interlude,' Steppenwolf's 'Menagerie,' and a Lynne Nottage premiere.
Reflections on what's bringing joy, and a look at where we'll meet the next challenge.
We say theatre can be healing, but what if that were literally true?
A lively and perceptive watcher and thinker, she helped generations of artists and critics view theatre as a kind of space and time travel.
The new initiative will give unrestricted funds to 5 trans women of color in the performing arts and theatre.
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing.
He'll fill the role recently left by Erica Ezold while the Pennsylvania company seeks a successor.
The barn doors at SPACE will close after more than a decade supporting creators and cultivators, while the board considers what comes next.
A far-ranging conversation about their common approach to text as a springboard, why they're past theory, and how they introduced Jessica Lange to Viewpoints.
Livingston will head to Houston this August.
A new report details the efforts of 20-plus artists, administrators, and organizations to join forces and give microgrants to colleagues impacted by the pandemic and its effects.
Theatres are taking a hard look at a well-worn patron model, and coming to different conclusions about its usefulness.
Colleagues and friends of the actor-playwright recall his legacy as a dramatist, poet, producer, mentor, truth teller, and friend.
Theatre is all about human behavior. Is it time to let audiences be fully human too?
