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April has been an eventful theatre month, from Mae West's obscenity charges to Shakespeare's birthday to the Tony Awards ceremony.
After 18 and 50 years respectively at the helm of Asolo Rep, the theatre's producing artistic director and managing director will step down in June of 2023.
The second round of 2021-22 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards, totaling $731,000, will support 16 world premiere productions with extended development and rehearsal time.
Presented in honor of his play 'tiny father,' the prize includes a $10,000 award and the accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission to write a new play.
The Sondheim/Wheeler classic about bloody revenge is the basis for a 10-episode musical series for the popular streamer.
Far from simply preaching tolerance among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, this 18th-century comic fable insists on true inclusion and fellowship.
In two new plays at the Huntington, the 'Luck of the Irish' playwright debuts 2 new plays drawing on her family dynamics and Boston roots, respectively.
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. Based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows a postulate who serves…
The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. Based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows a postulate who serves…
William Gillette has invited his fellow cast members to his castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks …
William Gillette has invited his fellow cast members to his castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks …
A new theatre piece based on a Claudia Rankine essay may be educational for white audiences, but for Black audiences it's merely relatable.
53 percent of theatregoers are not in favor of ending the mask requirement on April 30, and 77 percent are very negative about eliminating the vaccination requirement.
The Dramatists Guild Legal Defense Fund's new toolkit is designed to help students and educators to both responsibly and freely produce theatre in academic settings.
The $2.1 million in expedited arts funding includes $1.6 million for Chicago small arts organizations and $576,000 for general operating renewal grants.
Toner, a 60-year veteran of regional theatre from New Jersey to L.A. to Mississippi, will continue to direct projects and raise money for the Texas theatre.
In this special episode, recorded live in Madison, Wisc., Brian interviews the poet/playwright who wrote 'The Mytilenean Debate' for Forward Theater.
The second annual youth playwriting festival, currently accepting short play submissions from students in grades 3-12, aims bring theatre education into Boston area classrooms.
Amid a rise in anti-Asian hate incidents, the new fund will subsidize transportation for Asian American performers who don't feel safe riding mass transit.
On this episode the editors talk to the director of the drama '7 Minutes' about labor, management, and new-play development .
The original Orin Dennis from 'Children of Lesser God,' the self-starting Merkin had a rich career as a Deaf theatre innovator, mentor, and raconteur.
A seasoned fundraiser, she is tasked with activating and growing TCG's major gifts and planned giving.
6 new short plays with an Afrofuturist focus will be created by native Detroit artists over the span of 48 hours and performed live on Sunday, March 27.
The experimental theatremaker and scholar looks back at the Civil Rights era, the Free Southern Theater, and the time he directed August Wilson in Johannesburg.
The 5th annual festival will run April 1-10 and will feature a lineup of 85 shows and events from 64 organizations.
