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It's the all-Public-Theater edition of Offscript! Senior editor Eliza Bent joins us to discuss Young Jean Lee's newest show "Straight White Men" at the Public Theater. Then Suzy, Rob and Eli…
People's Light & Theatre, along with the greater Delaware Valley theatre community, remember Greg Rowe as a passionate advocate for local arts and their patrons.
After a last-minute scare with the bank, the long-troubled Pittsburgh arts center is in the hands of local foundations, with ambitious plans to get it right this time.
"Wonderful Town" choreographer and Broadway dancer Donald Saddler has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of awards and a fidelity to period movement.
Clare Barron is the 2014 recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, given to emerging playwrights.
She took a new job in a new city, bought a new home---and then got a breast cancer diagnosis. She's getting by with a little from her friends, including Sam Beckett.
In Fiasco Theater's reimagining of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's fairy-tale musical, 11 actors take over all of the roles while playing their own musical instruments.
With two stages and a rotating repertory season, this small mountain-town theatre company specializes in intimate new plays and contemporary revivals.
A seldom-produced Elizabethan epic storms a Brooklyn stage, and its lead actor John Douglas Thompson reflects on the value of Marlowe and the universality of the classic roles.
L.A.'s peer-judged awards recognize the most notable theatre work of the past year, from Broadway-bound to black box, and dole out $75,000 worth of honorary cash awards.
Political and cultural conflicts, plus a dash of camp (two vintage Charles Busch revivals!), ignite this week’s offerings on stages across America.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary season, Working Theater has commissioned plays about, and developed in, NYC's five boroughs.
Caption this image and win a free hardback copy of "The Flick" by Annie Baker.
From Steppenwolf to USC drama school, recent staff changes abound.
TCG's Theatre Facts report gives cause for hope, and a new database of Holocaust plays recalls theatre's essence as a living document.
From Young Jean Lee to Roald Dahl, from Shaw to Wedekind, the issue is packed with peril and conflict.
Intending to serve as interim artistic director, McFadden instead oversaw five years of growth for the company, including the building of a new home.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author talks about unsettling his audience and repainting the Muslim image in the West.
Brass tacks and emotional outbursts highlight this week on the nation's theatre podcasts.
A former SEIU organizer takes the helm of the stage union's Western region at a potentially dramatic juncture.
Elements Theatre Company, a theatre company within a Benedictine Christian community, forgoes religious pageantry for a mix of classics and new plays.
The current managing director of the Contemporary American Theatre Festival will bring his new-play passion to Pittsburgh.
The founder of the Off-Off-Broadway mainstay leaves as the theatre plans a move into a new three-theatre complex.
From haunted tours to "Dracula," theatres get in on the Halloween action.
Taking a page from the ensemble-devising book, Woolly Mammoth is launching a new series of workshops, aimed at incorporating audience input into the play development process.
