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MINNEAPOLIS: The Playwrights' Center has announced its 2015–16 Jerome Fellows, its McKnight Fellows in Playwriting and the recipient of its McKnight National Residency and …
New productions of 'Rent,' 'Dreamgirls' and 'The Little Mermaid' vie with a newly constructed musical, 'Empire.'
Valdez leaves after eight years shoring up the ensemble advocacy organization.
Los Angeles is still getting a good deal, AEA's executive director insists, if people would only take the time to study its new proposals for the city's small theatres.
Couples and coupling are a recurring theme this week, but then so are the social forces that can tear them asunder.
Two new one-woman plays dramatize the unique stress and ethical pitfalls of fighting in the Chair Force.
The New York theatre honors recognize a resident theatre leader as it enters its 100th year.
The Off-Broadway company joins the ranks of nonprofits with Broadway houses, with a mission to produce living American writers.
In addition to stagings of 'Rear Window' and 'Anastasia,' the theatre will produce a Christopher Shinn world premiere.
The new-work development institute's slate ranging from interplanetary voyages to refugee camps, and many points between.
Two new books explore the content, and context, of the great composer/conductor's divided musical character.
Far from detached or academic, the work on offer at the Santiago a Mil festival showed theatremakers in the thick of politics, race and culture.
The festival founder talks about keeping theatre vital in a country recovering from dictatorship and facing new challenges.
Some companies that have made U.S./Mexico theatrical exchanges central to their work.
My play about the 1915 genocide, seen and developed on U.S. stages, is now being presented in the language and home of my ancestors.
Stateside companies form collaborations with theatres based in Mexico, and vice versa, creating a fertile dynamic for art and change.
Along with plays by Sarah Ruhl, August Wilson, Howard Brenton, Ayad Akhtar and Elizabeth Irwin, MTC will premiere Rachel Bonds's 'The Swimmers.'
With the long-awaited normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, theatre artists may be uniquely poised to make the most of the new climate of exchange.
Also offered will be 'Mother Courage' starring Tonya Pinkins and the seldom-seen 'Nathan the Wise' starring F. Murray Abraham.
We share more than colonial history with Central and South America; we also share theatrical traditions. But it can a little re-exploration to map them.
The Kansas City theatre season will include a world premiere from William Missouri Downs, an NNPN rolling world premiere by Hilary Bettis and 'Heathers the Musical.'
Promoted from within the publisher's literary department, the Seattle-bred manager will handle acquisitions and curation of its catalogue.
The former Foundry Theatre managing producer will join Moisés Kaufman's devised-theatre troupe starting in May.
As they change out managing directors, the theatre plans stage versions of books by Jane Austen and Rona Jaffe, as well as Orson Welles's take on 'Moby-Dick.'
Next season at the theatre will include shows from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Jason Robert Brown, Mitch Albom and a world premiere from Travis G. Baker.
