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L.A.'s Lauren Michelle took the first prize in the international theatre singing competition, which doled out a record number of prizes and money to young performing talents.
The slate ranges from Feydeau to Pirandello, Shakespeare to Shaw, plus Miller and a new adaptation of Anouilh's 'Antigone.'
A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre's annual new-play gathering.
The Off-Broadway theatre's season will also include new plays from Colman Domingo and Paula Vogel.
The playwright was this year's honoree at the annual festival in Independence, which featured a generous sampling of his work, and Jen Silverman was the New Voices Award winner.
Art or social service? That's a false choice for this small but committed L.A. theatre, where theatrical excellence and community service are inextricably intertwined.
The season will also include Lawrence Wright's 'Camp David,' a world premiere play by Anna Ziegler, and new plays by Kimber Lee and Nick Payne.
Alongside popular shows by Shakespeare, Coward, Ibsen and Garson Kanin is a seldom-seen melodrama by David Belasco.
A commissioned Sherlock Holmes play and a new musical inspired by 9/11 are among the offerings in the 2015--16 season.
'Between Riverside and Crazy' is the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Jordan Harrison and Suzan-Lori Parks are named as finalists.
This year, in addition to its usual performance offerings, the festival partnered with thinkEAST to get site-specific with an Austin neighborhood.
New-musical series presents works by Michael Elyanow, Harrison David Rivers and Peter Duchan.
Art and religion, music and murder, conspiracies and magic are among the subjects and themes strutting and fretting their hours on U.S. stages.
Playwright/Pulitzer-finalist Rolin Jones talks about "These Paper Bullets!" his Beatles and Shakespeare-inspired musical, and his new theatre company New Neighborhood.
The slate includes a new academic drama by T.J. Brady and the U.S. professional premiere of Frank Wildhorn's 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
The playwright's docutheatre piece, about an infamous case involving a young slave convicted for killing her master, takes top prize.
Whatever Shakespeare's intentions, the actor/writer argues, the role now offers a chance to reflect on race as it's lived now. But are we up for that?
The slate ranges from Neil Simon to Julia, from a bio-drama about Justice William O. Douglas to 'Man of La Mancha.'
The Houston theatre's series includes a 'Sweet Potato Queens,' a world premiere from Melissa Manchester and Rupert Holmes.
Playwright Pearl Cleage, for whom tales of the Harlem Renaissance were childhood bedtime stories, reflects on her 1995 period piece.
New $52-million effort will support and study the audience-development work of 26 arts organizations, including 8 theatres.
Richard Engling's 'Afterlife Trilogy,' inspired by his late friend Fern Chertkow, includes two novels and a new play, 'Anna in the Afterlife.'
The company's landmark recreation of the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical from 1941 sets out to recapture the show's original glamour.
New plays, musicals, puppetry pieces and cabaret shows will get an airing at the storied development center.
The inheritor of the defunct L.A. Weekly Awards honored the town's 99-seat-and-under theatres, which are feeling besieged at the moment.
