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Marisa Carr, Keelay Gipson, Isaac Gómez, and Stacey Rose will join the Chicago company as artistic director Ken-Matt Martin reimagines the program.
A choir founded during the AIDS crisis stages a revivifying concert amid another pandemic, as longtime leader Michael McElroy moves on.
A new Philadelphia production offers a timely, often disconcerting look at Antoinette Nwandu's play about police violence, soon headed for Broadway.
After a hiatus, the critics return with a look back at a tumultuous year and a look ahead to reopening on Broadway and beyond.
The stage and screen giant, recently appointed dean of Howard University's College of Fine Arts, looks back---and ahead---on an extraordinary career.
As students call out inequities in theatre training institutions, educators of color can find themselves with additional labor and scarce support.
A year after issuing them, theatre student and alumni organizers discuss the still unfolding results of their anti-racist calls to action for university training programs.
The award will support a playwright or theatre artist each year to develop a new work.
This month, a talk with with a playwriting legend, whose most apocalyptic recent works are being released this week as podcasts.
When Mac Rogers and I met our playwriting hero, Wallace Shawn, we were honored---and confronted anew with his devastating plays.
Though much talk has surrounded possible federal funding, let's imagine a world based in repertory theatre and funding from the state level.
The awards will allow 28 productions more time for rehearsal and development with the entire creative team.
My time at this storied Florida retreat was both relaxing and productive---and I was ready for the bugs this time.
Kaneza Schaal's initiative 'Towards a New Collectivity' will partner with five artists this summer.
The database will provide industry-wide statistics on race, gender, and disability in the American theatre.
A whimsical American fable performed by live folk musicians that will charm and delight audiences of all ages.
A knockout award-winning new play inspired by real-world boxer Jack Johnson will come to life on our Copaken Stage before going on tour throughout the community
A fast-paced, laugh-a-minute, World Premiere by one of America's hottest playwrights.
Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko and Ayla Xuan Chi Sullivan will receive $5,000 to develop new work thanks to a new fellowship for Black trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) playwrights.
Theatres from New York to Houston, brought together by Chicago director Chuck Smith, are joining forces to advance and advocate for their work.
Filled with soaring new melodies and powered by Douglass' own speeches and writings, Charles Randolph-Wright returns
to Arena with this new work that celebrates the revolutionary legacy of …
Filled with soaring new melodies and powered by Douglass' own speeches and writings, Charles Randolph-Wright returns
to Arena with this new work that celebrates the revolutionary legacy of …
Drumfolk takes audiences on a journey from the 17th century to today, revealing the hidden histories and resounding movements that transformed America.
Arena will kick off the first North American tour of New York's Signature Theatre's production of Lauren Yee's acclaimed play Cambodian Rock Band. Thrilling mystery meets rock concert in thi…
Arena will kick off the first North American tour of New York's Signature Theatre's production of Lauren Yee's acclaimed play Cambodian Rock Band. Thrilling mystery meets rock concert in thi…
