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The award will recognize a mid-career theatre artist engaged in social change through the arts with an unrestricted $18,000 prize.
After seven seasons, Kramer will be succeeded by Tara Franklin and James Barry as co-producing artistic directors.
After joining the organization in 2021, Laisure became the first woman and person of color to hold the managing director position in CPH's 107-year history.
Playwright Jonathan Alexandratos reflects on the plethora of joys, pains, ownerships, references, anxieties, comforts, languages, forms, and more to be found in non-binary plays.
This year's honorees include costume designers Fred Voelpel and Dede Ayite, scenic designer Eugene Lee, and visual artist Michael Curry.
From a Conan Doyle-inspired inquiry to an Emmett Till trilogy, from a Baroque opera to an Alaskan Tlingit journey, here are some shows I'd put on my hypothetical theatre calendar.
October recalls the extraordinary career of a 19th-century performer, the founding of both an Indianapolis institution and a West Coast bilingual theatre project, as well as the premieres of…
In excerpts from a new book, the British-born director talks about childhood mysteries, the theatre buildings he's worked in, and his fascination with erasure and contradictions.
The $25,000 award is intended both to honor a deserving artist and to keep a spotlight on persistent gender-based inequity in the field.
The company has uncovered 9 overlooked but eminently producible plays by women through history, from Aphra Behn to Wakako Yamauchi.
O'Neal will receive a $10,000 stipend, travel and housing reimbursement, and will teach a playwriting course and develop a comedy about black women in reality television; Finalists of the re…
Anderson will receive the $50,000 award for her play 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home' at an event on Oct. 24.
The playwright talks with director Chi-wang Yang about his new play 'Scene With Cranes,' about making theatre in a bar, and about the unacknowledged grief of the world.
An attorney on the frontline of Native American rights, and the playwright of 'Sovereignty' and 'Manahatta,' Nagle will create a work inspired by stories of the region.
The founder of Chelsea Theater Center was a force from the 1960s onward, doing plays no one else would do and encouraging similar boldness in his colleagues.
From our first meeting, he opened me up to a panorama of possibilities, not only in the theatre but in myself.
With a Broadway debut about disabled folks and their caretakers, the playwright of 'Sanctuary City' and 'Ironbound' is again writing at the margins.
A new play at Barrington Stage Company, about a class-riven romance among 2 wheelchair and text-to-speech users, also has plenty of disabled talent backstage.
After 3 years as artistic director at Arizona Theatre Company, Daniels will lead new-play development at the Sarasota theatre, particularly of work dealing with addiction and recovery.
Gearing up for their 6th collaboration at the Goodman, the playwright and director reflect on an artistic partnership that has spanned 25 years.
Readers respond to a review of a book about making it bleed onstage, and a theatre leader takes issue with a recent report on a necessarily changing field.
The company is launching another fellowship program to lower barriers for playwrights entering the industry.
In this episode, Brian talks to a longtime friend and colleague about her circuitous path from and back to the Pine Tree State, and what that journey has meant for her as a writer.
On this episode we broke the news that Nottage's 'Clyde's' will be the most-produced play of the season, then welcomed her and fellow prolific scribe Gunderson on to talk shop.
Named for Coho Productions' late artistic director, Philip Cuomo, the new collective also includes Third Rail Rep and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble.
