City Theatre Announces 2015-16 Season of New Plays
The Pittsburgh theatre's 41st seasons include five Pittsburgh premieres and a world premiere from Keith Reddin.
The Pittsburgh theatre's 41st seasons include five Pittsburgh premieres and a world premiere from Keith Reddin.
Featuring an uneasily eclectic bag of themes, this year's new-play festival tackles Black History Month, labor unions and Alzheimer's.
Guirgis won the best play prize, with $2,500; plus Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' was named best musical.
Among the offerings at South Coast Rep's influential new work fest this year were plays inspired by its astonishing diversity.
Program includes a retreat in upstate New York and an award to a female playwright from the Great Plains Theatre Conference.
Some of America's newest plays are slated to be performed in West Virginia's oldest town.
The company will mount a production of two American plays in repertory in addition to a varied lineup of four more plays.
The Texas troupe's epic 'Wars of Heaven' trilogy sets out to tackle all of human, and divine, history. No wonder they're leaders on the local and national puppetry scene.
New takes on 'The Princess and the Pea', 'Cinderella' and 'The Tortoise and the Hare' alternate with adaptations and favorites.
New prize program with Center Theatre Group will also set aside funds for local world-premiere production.
The female-empowerment organization announces the winner of its inaugural playwriting competition, to be staged at an event in June.
The Chicago theatre's roster includes a U.S. premiere and two Midwest premieres.
Katori Hall's 'The Mountaintop', as well as a George Brant world premiere and two regional premieres, are on the theatre's six-show slate.
The company celebrates its 30th season with a mix of new plays, classic tales and a musical.
Autism-related theatre for youth has its own spectrum, from work created for autistic kids to pieces devised with their input.
Hounded from their home country but staying together via Skype, Minsk's toughest troupe is back in New York with another harrowing but mesmerizing piece.
The resourceful, venue-less Big Easy company plans a range of offerings, including three immersive pieces.
From Connecticut to Colorado, from Restoration Comedy to kitchen-sink naturalism, it's a wide-ranging week in U.S. theatres.
The seasoned bicoastal theatremaker agrees in principle with Equity's goals, but not its expectations or its tactics.
The North Carolina theatre's 2015--16 has a varied lineup of four plays, half of them by Brits.
Auspicious births (Orson Welles, Howard Ashman) and major theatre foundings (the Old Globe, East West Players) mark previous Mays.
The Company of Fools celebrates its 20th season with a reading series and a line-up of award-winning plays.
The LGBT theatre's 2015--16 season features a series of West Coast premieres and a brand new musical.
A play about how bullies got that way gets a staging at Huntington Theatre Company, while another of his plays is staged at Company One.
The director/playwright and longtime leader of McCarter Theatre will receive the award at a ceremony on May 16.