Contemporary American Theater Fest Announces 2018 Season
The six-play lineup will feature five world premiere plays.
The six-play lineup will feature five world premiere plays.
Colette Robert and ensemble company Little Lord are among the artists who will be given money and space to develop new work.
What do we owe to this quarter-century-old American classic? More life.
Tony Taccone, a co-pilot for the first flight of 'Angels in America,' brings Kushner's epic back home to Berkeley.
A generation of playwrights reflects on a play that still sets the bar high for their work.
A role as the gay Mormon lawyer in 'Angels in America' on Broadway brings the Texas-born actor back to a play that helped make him an actor.
The National Theatre revival, now headed for Broadway, brings an American play's long London history full circle.
This epic 'gay fantasia' emerged from the recession-wracked regional theatre of the early 1990s, but the field may be even more risk-averse now.
It's not just all the arduous unpacking: AIDS, Reagan, the closet, Mormons. It's also that the play's millennial dread seems puzzling to post-millennials.
Remembering a tireless and unflinching performer who could go anywhere and take us with her.
This private, devout, and thoughtful man shared so much of himself onstage because that's where he had the most to give to others.
The Oregon Shakes leader will cross the country to take on a new challenge: to lead a performing arts center at New York's World Trade Center.
The season will feature a world premiere from Ike Holter and plays by Paula Vogel, Dominique Morisseau, Lauren Yee, and Madhuri Shekar.
The season will include the world premiere productions of 'I Come From Arizona' and 'The Hobbit.'
The season will include a world premiere musical by Keith Hovis.
The recipients are Jay Adana, Andrew R. Butler and Andrew Farmer, Emily Kaczmarek and Zoe Sarnak, and Mark Sonnenblick.
The longtime artistic director will leave to lead the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center in New York City.
The sudden and unexplained parting ends a 15-year relationship with the author of 'Some Girl(s)' and 'Fat Pig.'
The season will feature world premieres by Larissa FastHorse, Tori Sampson, Halley Feiffer, and Michael R. Jackson.
In this podcast episode, an interview with the playwright of 'We're Gonna Be Okay' and 'Orange Julius.'
At a gathering of Boston theatre leaders and their boards last year, Bill Rauch shared tips and takeaways from Oregon Shakes's ED&I journey.
In many ways, fundraising for theatre faces the same patterns and pressures as other nonprofits. But in recent years, numbers have emerged indicating that theatre may be in considerably bett…
The season will feature a world premiere by Hershey Felder about Claude Debussy.
What U.S. Jewish narratives have to say to an age of rising hatred and exclusion.
The 2018-19 season will include 6 productions, including adaptations of classics from Kate Hamill, Ellen McLaughlin, and David Ives.