Offscript: Chicago Shakes With the World
In this month's Offscript, we hear from three leaders who bring the world together through Shakespeare and new work. Plus, we learn about a new generative arts journalism fellowship.
In this month's Offscript, we hear from three leaders who bring the world together through Shakespeare and new work. Plus, we learn about a new generative arts journalism fellowship.
Beginning on Oct. 15, she joins chief artistic programming officer Joanne Lamparter.
The musical adaptation of 'Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust' is currently having its world premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
Amid continuing change and uncertainty, TCG is committed to showing up for American theatre institutions and workers.
The venerable East Bay theatre, which offered classics outdoors for 50 years, is another casualty of the punishing economics of theatre since the end of the Covid lockdown.
Our season preview and most-produced plays lists show a theatre scene still feeling the effects of contraction but continuing to show up for the work against steep odds.
In the new docu-theatre piece 'The Ford/Hill Project,' the words of Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hall---and their interrogators---live again onstage.
Deaf and hearing artists are looking for the timeless rage in a new staging of Green Day's 'American Idiot,' a collaboration between Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group.
A tribute from one seeker-clown to another.
A new 4-actor version of Williams's classic, which played last year at alternative NYC spaces, is headed for L.A., then Yale.
After 19 years at the Texas theatre and decades of leadership at U.S. theatres, Gladden will step down on June 30, 2025.
Program highlights include updates on funding, real estate, community resources, and advocacy
The book writer for the new Louis Armstrong musical reflects on the show's winding path through years of Covid, 3 cities, and countless rewrites.
The Atlanta costume designer discusses the art and people who have helped shape her into the artist she is today.
With her new play set to open in her hometown, the Seattle playwright discusses how her play engages with Arthur Miller's work and her dream collaborations.
Bookended with plays by Black women writers across the span of a century, this month's survey includes the founding of an influential political theatre, a path-breaking First Nations narrati…
This month Brian speaks with the Playwrights' Center core writer and co-artistic director of Minneapolis's Red Eye about chance encounters and her relationship to future thinking.
There was no physical damage to the theatre building, but the company's fate feels precarious, and not just due to the hurricane, said artistic director Charlie Flynn-McIver.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
On this episode we broke the news of which plays and playwrights will be the most produced this season. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and some most-produced playwrights on …
2 new volumes by and about a pioneering Appalachian company celebrate decades of work, though they also deserve scrutiny.
An interview with the playwright of 'Salesman之æ»,' about Arthur Miller's collaboration with Chinese theatremakers on the premiere of his signature play in Beijing in 1983.
A new study measures the city's artistic success by the more than 4,500 artists employed and over 1,800 productions, exhibitions, and special events programmed each year.
He succeeds outgoing executive director John Martin and joins the company as they begin their 27th season.
The directors of this iconic NYC festival, now a city-wide celebration since losing its longtime home, aren't just planning next January's programming but the fest's next 20 years as well.