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What is our commitment to experimentation, and to leading the field in this area?
A look behind the scenes of an immersive musical, and a survey of generative directors.
The first fellows in a program designed to foster a new generation of leaders of color are Jess McLeod and Aaron Todd Douglas.
The company will present five world premiere plays and a reading series.
Introducing a new podcast to American Theatre's network: the Subtext, where playwright Brian James Polak interviews playwrights about what makes them tick.
Casting data show a rise in minority casting, though some ethnicities are still underrepresented onstage.
In Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire, theatre persists despite declining government support and lingering questions about who it's for.
American theatre must embrace all body types, and stop shunning and shaming fat performers and their stories.
From early theatre for young audiences to the creation of the Asian Multi Media Center, January's theatrical milestones started the year with a bang.
The initiative will support an exchange of playwrights and their plays at multiple theatres.
In trying to fix one of Shakespeare's problem plays, did we create a new race issue? A fair note, but here's the backstory.
The season will include world premiere plays, classic musicals, and children's shows.
She is currently the managing director of Theatre Bay Area, and will begin her new job next month.
The season will include three world premiere plays.
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will present Miranda with the award this spring.
In this podcast episode, recorded live at the Robert Moss Theater, directors Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, Anne Bogart, and Liesl Tommy discusses the hows and whys of directing.
The kind of leader who listened as much as he led, he also modeled an enviable work/life balance.
Playwrights Angela Hanks and Gabrielle Reisman won for their takes on the work of Caryl Churchill.
The team-up will allow New York theatregoers to pick from shows with at least 50 percent female or trans people on the creative team.
The theatre in Plano, Texas shuddered in December after more than two decades. We speak to its artistic directors, who are moving back overseas.
The longtime leader of the Houston theatre is retiring, effective immediately.
The poet's haunting 'Native Guard,' now a theatre piece at the Alliance, goes to the Civil War and back.
A new generation of theatremakers is ready to blow up the gay canon and reclaim a defiantly queer aesthetic.
From literary adaptations to play festivals, check out what is onstage this month.
Given the chance to play Claudio as a black man, neither I nor our production took the racial implications lightly.
