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The winning plays by grade school and high school students will be performed as part of the Marilyn Bianchi Festival this summer.
One theatre writer (who's white) says that it's disingenuous to have all-white casts, white directors, and white designers for plays that supposedly examine white privilege.
The season will include plays from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Lucas Hnath as well as 'Falsettos' and the return of fan favorite Libby Whittemore.
The funding will support commissions from emerging playwrights Joanna Garner, Lily Houghton, and C.A. Johnson.
The service organization recognizes theatre artists and companies working in the TYA field.
"I also think that he was a playwright who was very confident in his interpretation of the play. I once heard him say, 'No actor or director has ever shown me anything in one of my plays tha…
It was, in her words, "a fucking compulsion," says Tommy, a mixed-race native of Cape Town who came to Massachusetts with her family at age 15. "I believed the lie that the reason that there…
Maroney will join the theatre following a six-month search.
She brings an administrative brain to a small, hardy new-play company on the verge of an upgrade.
Do a crop of inward-looking new plays about white privilege represent a step forward, or are they an expression of privilege in themselves?
Hedges will begin the post in Maine next month.
"Cell phones in theatres may no longer be taboo. Well, at least in this case, where 12 Broadway theatres now offer GalaPro, a new app that expands accessibility services by providing audio d…
The season will include a remount of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' and a mdoernized Hedda Gabler by Lucy Kirkwood.
The company's general manager will step into the role next month.
The application deadline is May 4 for theatre leaders (including a journalist) based in New York City or St. Louis.
As a director, he's interested in how people act on each other; he also has a visual instinct. Both came in handy for 'Three Tall Women.'
How the Tony-nominated director makes space for women of color in the theatre, not just herself.
According to an official statement from the Florida Rep board, the reasons for the dismissal of Robert Cacioppo, who co-founded the Fort Myers company in 1998, were "behavioral problems [inc…
The Dallas theatre's season will include world premiere plays by Len Jenkin and Matthew Paul Olmos.
The nine-show season will feature new plays, classic works, and jukebox musicals.
The season will feature plays from Mark St. Germain, Joe DiPietro, Michael McKeever, and Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor.
The new-works incubator will present readings and developmental productions of plays and musicals, among them works by Beth Henley and Cori Thomas.
This month's episode is super-long because Brian James Polak traveled to the Humana Festival and spoke to two playwrights that were getting world premieres there.
The long-standing distance between a mother and her son is not quite closed in this new play about grief, guilt, and longing.
"As the world becomes more hostile to us all as artists, you must find that thing in making art that brings you as much peace as reifying my deeper self does for me. Not the thing about thea…
