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On the slate for Tony Taccone's final season: Mary Zimmerman, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Lucas Hnath, and Geoff Sobelle.
The literary director at Actors Theatre leads the yearlong charge of selecting the lineup.
The English dame holds forth on 'My Fair Lady' and its problems, pay equity, and the time Albee didn't like her performance.
Russell M. Dembin: "For me it was more than fine: [the] casting elevated the play to another level, embracing the characters' Jewishness while speaking to a time in which many people, not on…
Grappling with complex issues of representation, a multiethnic People's Light staging offers a version for our fraught times.
Alisa Solomon: "How deeply and daily disappointing that the paper of record erases the same people and perspectives that are ever more disdained by the current regime. That for me, at least,…
Five authors from each of the UNESCO regions share messages for the 56th World Theatre Day.
There's no escape for or from the tortured Tyrones, as Flock Theatre stages O'Neill's masterpiece in the intimacy of his family's historic cottage.
The lineup features world premieres by Bess Wohl and Samuel Baum, plus a new musical.
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian's plays their lasting power? 'Power' is the operative word.
The Wisconsin-based theatre has brought performers with disabilities together to tell more authentic stories about the disabled experience.
The season will feature five world premieres, new musicals, and a series of theatre for the very young.
Despite threats of total elimination, the nation's arts and humanities got a small boost today.
A native of the Yellowhammer State, Schmidt leaves his post at New Jersey's Paper Mill after a career that has also encompassed Chicago and Wisconsin theatres.
The NY Times' recent 'Brief History of Gay Theatre' was not so brief. So how did it manage to leave out so much gay history that wasn't white and male?
The slate ranges from Jane Austen to Karen ZacarÃas, from Anna Ziegler to David Henry Hwang, from Culture Clash to Mo Willems.
The slate also includes Christina Ham's Nina Simone musical, a play by Stephen Dietz, a staging of Khaled Hosseini, and more.
The organization has awarded the Florida drama program with the Spirit of Thespis Award.
The San Francisco theatre's season will include a chamber opera, and contemporary plays and musicals.
The season will feature both classic and contemporary plays and musicals.
The season will include Greek mythology, a holiday classic, and contemporary works.
New plays by Rebecca Gilman, Christina Anderson, Dael Orlandersmith, Ike Holter, and David Cale accompany the Chicago debut of 'Sweat' and revivals of 'The Winter's Tale' and 'The Music Man.'
The season will feature works by Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Anna Ziegler, Lucas Hnath, Julia Cho, Hershey Felder, and Lynn Nottage.
The season will include co-productions, a new-play festival, and two world premieres.
On this podcast, the critics discuss "small-show syndrome"---is programming two-handers and one-set living-room dramas a way for producers to save money, or can it be an inspiring challenge …
