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Utah actor-playwright Carleton Bluford talks about the inspiration for his new play "Mama," getting a 2015 premiere by Salt Lake City's Plan-B Theatre.
Eric Lange adds texture to Broadway’s The Country House — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles The ghost of Konstantin, t…
Chicago theatre artists Corliss Preston, John Slywka and Michelle Shupe are creating a CD mixing the words of Shakespeare's women with sound effects and music.
The creative team of Pioneer Theatre Company's upcoming world premiere staging of "Alabama Story" has been announced.
Playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach talks about the inspiration for his new play "A Neighbor in the Area," getting reading with Reed Birney, Heather Lind and Nick Westrate.
A look at Mark St. Germain's new romantic comedy, "Dancing Lessons," getting its world premiere Aug. 13 at Barrington Stage Company.
Playwright Roger Weisman talks about his new Albee-esque sci-fi play "How Do You Say Mother in Esperanto?," part of FringeNYC.
Chicago playwright Brett Neveu discusses his past, his process and his current project, the NYC premiere of his acclaimed play "The Opponent," by A Red Orchid Theatre.
Why Brett Neveu’s boxing drama is actually a family play — There is nothing particularly warm, welcoming, or homey about the setting of Brett Neveu’s The Opponent, a two-ch…
Actress-playwright Jenny Mercein talks about her solo show "Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge," inspired by her own coming of age and the life and death of the iconic Pennsylvania resort.
Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian, the award-winning musical comedy writers whose "Murder For Two" completed an eight-month Off-Broadway run on June 29, have a new musical waiting in the wings.
Playwright and director Charles Morey talks about "The Granite State," his Cowardesque new American comedy premiering July 23-Aug. 3 at Peterborough Players, his first and continuing artisti…
Playwright Sean Grennan talks about his new comedy-drama "The Tin Woman," about a heart transplant recipient meeting the late donor's family, getting its world premiere by Wisconsin's Penins…
The fourth and final reading in the 2014 NewTACTics Festival of New Plays, Matte O'Brien's "The Wonderful Mr. & Mrs. O'Leary," will be heard 7 PM June 25-26 at the TACT Studio in Manhattan. …
Cori Thomas talks about her approach to playwriting and what led her to conjure "When January Feels Like Summer," now in its final weekend at Ensemble Studio Theatre.
The new play "Alabama Story," a finalist in the 2014 National Playwrights Conference, gets a Manhattan reading June 18-19 prior to its world premiere by Utah's Pioneer Theatre Company.
Broadway's Robert Creighton sings and dances in a June 13 New York City reading of the musical "Cagney," the Carbonell Award-winning show that he co-wrote with Peter Colley and Christopher M…
Casting has been announced for the June 11-12 NewTACtics reading of "A Public Education," Jeff Talbott's peek inside the faculty lounge of an American high school, presented by Off-Broadway'…
A look at the four titles in the newTACTics Festival of New Plays, a series of readings by Off-Broadway's TACT/The Actors Company Theatre.
In honor of Cole Porter's birthday on June 9, a look at the forgotten musical "You Never Know," which was revised in the 1980s and '90s.
Cori Thomas dramatizes her revelation about cultural differences — Playwright Cori Thomas didn’t have to travel far to find inspiration for her new play When January Feels Like S…
Artistic director Antoni Cimolino talks about "King Lear," one of 12 productions in the now-dawning 2014 season of the Stratford Festival in Ontario.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced the titles, writers, directors and actors of the 2014 Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, launching this week in Montgomery, AL.
Shaw Festival artistic director Jackie Maxwell talks about "re-oxygenating" classics, like "The Philanderer," in the 2014 season, which officially begins May 9 in Ontario.
A chat with playwright James Bosley, artistic director of NYC's UP Theater Company, which is premiering his "Broad Channel" this month.
