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An intrepid, in-demand force in the American theatre, this writer-director is finding more to say through Shakespeare's only recurring female character, Queen Margaret.
The Washington Post's next theatre critic is excited to dive into a scene that's new to him and to continue covering an industry in flux.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
How to deal with rejection and gain perspective on this crazy business? Maybe spend a day watching Broadway musicals you worked on but ultimately weren't cast in.
This month we start our look back at our recent gathering in the Windy City and hear from artists Anna Rogelio Joaquin and Aileen Wen McGroddy.
A longtime member of the theatre's acting company, she succeeds interim leader Kate Berry, who stepped in when John DiAntonio left last fall.
In 1968, one of the regional theatre's founding mothers wrote an urgent memo to her board: It was long past time to integrate the company and diversify the audience.
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.
