The Dramatists Guild of America presents the next event in their new DG Conservatory series moderated by Tony-winning composer and Guild Council member, Stephen Flaherty. Technology fo…
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University is a joint initiative of the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the School of Foreign Service. Led by Pro…
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University is a joint initiative of the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the School of Foreign Service. Led by Pro…
This is the third post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. Find the full series here . There have been many blogs and articles written about Twitter and the…
This is the third post in a series exploring the role of digital media in the theater realm. Find the full series here. There have been many blogs and articles written about Twitter and t…
This list of eighty-seven black theaters has been compiled with the help of Michael Dinwiddie (Black Theatre Network), Jonathan McCrory , ( HowlRound Series Curator) Beth Turner (Editor/Publ…
This list of eighty-seven black theaters has been compiled with the help of Michael Dinwiddie (Black Theatre Network), Jonathan McCrory, (HowlRound Series Curator) Beth Turner (Editor/Publis…
The Robey Theatre Company, founded in 1994 by Danny Glover and I, is committed to developing, exploring, and producing plays written about the global black experience and reinterpreting blac…
Black theater institutions today require unique and ongoing support for their vitality, legacy, and agency. These institutions, like The Ensemble Theatre in Houston, not only make important …
"The priest departs. The divine artist arrives." "Walt Whitman In the vibrant bacchanal that exists under the rubric "theater," I have lived many lives: actor, director, musician, compos…
"If you know the beginning well, the end will not trouble you" "African Proverb To write about the vitality and agency of the state of black theater is quite a task because I find no urgency…
This recording from January 2010′s Black Playwrights’ Convening starts with a reading performed by Jennifer L. Nelson of “New Black Math” by Suzan-Lori Parks. You can…
Black theater is my life. I am the managing producer of MPAACT (Ma'at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theater), a company that solely produces new work by playwrights of the Afrik…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the peer-produced, open-source #NEWPLAY TV pr…
Independent producers Jiles King, Jonathan McCrory, and Anthony McDonald met with Broadway producer Ron Simons, to talk about black theater on Broadway. Anthony McDonald: What is your defini…
I have worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than twenty years. I am currently an Artistic Associate at The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) and work as the Marketing Director for…
Panglossian Productions will present the first installation of its new Plays in Progress series: alive and on-line developmental reading of Elford Alley’s new play In Search of the Amh…
March finds the artistic and administrative team at Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota focusing on two objectives: one is celebrating the power of art to sustain and uplift cult…
At The Hansberry Project, we present the work of Black playwrights. We produce Black plays. We produce Black plays because we believe that black theater artists"artfully expressing their obs…
Throughout the history of American theater, the desire for a separate Black theater tradition has raised challenges and contradictions. Over the past decade, as many Black Theater institutio…
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.* Join us Thursday, March …
"It is never too late to be who you might have been." "Attributed to George Eliot When I first read these oft-cited words, I was twenty-two and wanted to be a fiction writer. Headlining a su…
You're invited to join Suzan-Lori Parks from the lobby of The Public Theater for Watch Me Work which will be livestreaming for the peer-produced, open-source #NEWPLAY TV pr…
This is the first in a series of blogs that will chronicle the birth and infancy of New Play Frontiers. I will share the origins of this program, its impact on our organization, the process …
Sleeping Weazel in Boston is celebrating Women's History Month with Women In Action: a new wave of art, theatre, music, and performance, a four-day event beginning with a public discus…