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A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
What might theatre become if we allowed it to look and act wildly different from the traditional forms we're used to?
After years of wrenching change, the nonprofit theatre sector can forge ahead by staying connected to its core values of artistic expression, community engagement, and lasting impact.
Her love for the stage"and for those who, like her, wrote about it"drove her peripatetic career, which continued even well into her supposed retirement.
In this episode, Woodzick talks with the Seattle-based creative about returning to acting, creating caring classrooms, and seeing the 'whole picture' as a director.
A playwright and former chief communications officer, Podesta began her new role on Jan 1.
In this month's newsletter, Allison checks in on Brown/Trinity Rep's MFA programs and asks educators about students auditioning for professional roles.
The author of 'The Nether' wrote her new play in graphic-novel form, and now it's getting a multimedia staging at CenterREP.
More patrons are buying fewer tickets, new ticket buyers are a growing demographic, and other takeaways from a new report by JCA Performing Arts.
A response to Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' Ankita Raturi's world premiere play explores what it means to try to survive in a new place when those already there treat you as a monster.
He joins CEO and executive artistic director Bryce Alexander in leading the organization.
The versatile director returns to Little Rock, joining executive director Will Trice and producing director Ken-Matt Martin to lead their hometown regional theatre into its next chapter.
This month we speak to the playwright and director of a new play at the Huntington, and check in with NY Times critic at large Maya Phillips.
Theatre in Kosovo"state-sanctioned and safe during the Soviet era, scrappy in the war years"offers models both cautionary and instructive for U.S. theatres facing headwinds.
She knew every subscriber to her L.A. theatre by name, and she was no less inviting to artists.
Developing a show crush may happen naturally during a rehearsal process, but a safe and successful production may hinge on navigating what happens next.
In Zora Howard's new play, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, a relaxing evening is interrupted by an altercation with the police.
Other updates include a cancellation of Challenge America grants and a new emphasis on patriotic 'America250' projects.
This month Brian talks with playwright, director, and performer Aya Ogawa about "hacking away with a machete" toward a career and directing their own work.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Endangered but essential, the work of arts journalists offers a repository and a reflection of the voices we need more than ever in dark times.
A poet/playwright reflects on the disturbing, arresting lessons of the Greek plays she's wrestled with for much of her career.
The world outside can't help but enter the classroom, which offers both a challenge and an opportunity to make theatre training more meaningful.
Eugene O'Neill's first full-length drama, Jane Fonda's Broadway debut, the founding of 2 Canadian arts mainstays, and more.
By centering love, generosity, and community, we can heal the theatre and ourselves.
