Martin Benson: Directing With Clarity, Traveling Light
The co-founder of South Coast Rep won acclaim by staging what playwrights wrote, and helping to sustain a home for their work.
The co-founder of South Coast Rep won acclaim by staging what playwrights wrote, and helping to sustain a home for their work.
Theatre in Poland inevitably intersects with politics, and not only because it relies on state support.
Remembering a director whose intelligence and sense of humor didn't just guide careers but built community.
This month Brian talks to the Southern-born writer about her journey through acting to playwriting, what her parents taught her, and her own parenting.
The versatile Atlanta actor, who died on Dec. 3 at the age of 75, is remembered as both larger than life and down to earth.
Beginning in summer 2025, Piedmont Shakespeare Company aims to fills the gap left by theatre closures in the region.
This correspondent returned eagerly to a place where theatre still matters in a troubled world, even if it can't quite make sense of it.
The irreplaceable dramaturg and activist, who died on Nov. 12 at age 72, is remembered by one of her closest comrades in art.
Members of the dramaturg/activist's chosen family remember her lifelong commitment to theatre, politics, and the art of friendship.
Gilbert & Sullivan's only U.S. world premiere, two theatre foundings (Dunbar Theatre in Philly, St. Nicholas in Chicago), a Broadway Y2K shutdown, and more.
The festival includes new plays by E.J. Batiste, Lynne Streeter Childress, Gail Lou, and D.L. Patrick.
After finishing out CTC's 2024-25 season, he'll start as artistic director of Pittsburgh's Alumni Theater Company.
A nonprofit pro who recently led the Network of Ensemble Theaters, she will join co-executive directors Emilya Cachapero and LaTeshia Ellerson.
Our regular roundup of prizes and other recognitions.
Currently managing director of Lincoln Center Theater, Siegel will join his former LCT colleague Evan Cabnet at the helm of Second Stage next April.
Kallan Dana's intimate, unsettling play, a production of The Hearth redirected from the shuttered Connelly Theatre, reemerges at A.R.T./New York.
This month, Woodzick chats with multi-hyphenate filmmaker Vera Drew about cultivating joyful spaces for trans audiences through her DIY film 'The People's Joker.'
After a tenure that include a name change and several acclaimed productions, he'll leave the theatre in the interim hands of managing director Nicole Samsel.
A check-in with stage managers, and ensemble creation in the New Mexico desert.
Who better to take the pulse of a changing industry than with the folks at the hub of the wheel: stage managers.
Short plays from the 2024 cohort will be featured at the LGBT Center in New York City on Dec. 2.
This Detroit-focused edition includes both theatremakers focused on cultivating the next generation and early-career artists showing the promise of that next wave.
This month, Gabriela explores multilingual and nonverbal storytelling, Jerald remembers Kris Vire and celebrates Sondheim, and two care consultants share ways to recharge this winter.
The Latino Theater Company's border-defying Encuentro, the fourth of its kind, gathered hundreds of Latine artists for productions, partnerships, and dialogues in multiple languages.
Born in Covid lockdown, The Exodus Ensemble is shaking the New Mexico desert with immersive work, including their new 'HAMLET.'