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The artistic director has served 17 seasons and produced 88 shows at the Northern California theatre.
This month Woodzick talks with the singer-songwriter-dancer about his new show and album 'English With an Accident,' an allegory about immigration and transformation.
Writer Sarah Ruhl and director Rebecca Taichman talk about how they're crafting 'Becky Nurse of Salem,' a new play about witches and women's power.
In his lifelong affair with the theatre, he could be a possessive, even jealous lover, but both his intellectual acuity and his abundant humanity shone through all his writing.
A new program from TYA/USA, which partners its writers with 24 major TYA theatres, is billed as the largest such effort ever undertaken in the field.
How 2 veterans of New York's 1960s-'70s avant-garde theatre made edgy, alternative theatre in a conservative state, and what enduring lessons their example may hold out for others.
Though celebrating her 95th birthday as well as the Actors Studio's 75th, the acclaimed but still busy actor isn't about to rest on her laurels.
The annual new-play series, featuring plays by Keith Bunin, Idris Goodwin, Noelle Viñas, and Lia Romeo, runs Dec. 1-12.
Members of this emerging New England theatre company are finding joy and building trust in the wake of trauma.
This month Brian talks to the author of 'tokyo fish story' and 'brownsville song (b-side for tray)' about panic, curiosity, and the earned laughs average.
Known for her lively, no-gimmick stagings of Shakespeare with Theatre for a New Audience, the director is branching out with 'Des Moines.'
How a number of recent shows in New York are landing, and what it feels like to work on them, in a time of rising antisemitism and right-wing violence.
A reflection on the influences who led me to become the theatre artist and educator I am today---and to be that influence for others.
A conversation with Joel Grey, Tovah Feldshuh, Caissie Levy, Michael Arden, and Bess Wohl about portrayals of Jewishness and antisemitism on New York stages.
Under the slogan 'It's About Time,' AEA members will gather to push for a better deal on Broadway understudies, scheduling, and workplace safety.
Socially engaged performance has a rich history in this country, and it deserves an account as localized and multivocal as its leading practitioners.
As he marks his 20th year in a show now celebrating its 25th Broadway anniversary, Mercer says that enthusiastic audiences---and a certain amount of backstage pranks---are what keep him ener…
For the show's associate music director, 'KPOP' brings together 2 things that are precious to her: the Broadway musical, and contemporary Korean and Korean American culture.
American Theatre's former senior editor talks about her new editor-in-chief gig, and how she thinks the theatre discourse has changed for the better.
The program will allow for 15 applicants to shadow, observe, or support experienced choreographers and directors during a production process.
JCA Arts Marketing's study showed declines in seats sold and revenue per performance, driven in part by last year's omicron surge.
The 5-acre farm in Doylestown, Pa., where Oscar Hammerstein II wrote his epochal musicals is being turned into a museum and education center.
A new production from Houses on the Moon Theater Company explores the untold stories of family members whose loved ones are incarcerated.
In a free-ranging retrospective interview, the Tony-winning choreographer of 'The Wiz' talks about his influences, his work with pop stars, his time with Alvin Ailey, and the love of his lif…
What began as a dark thought experiment---what if Black folks just left America and its racist violence behind?---has grown into a scathing satire that speaks to something deep inside audien…
