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The season will include a musical adaptation of 'Freaky Friday,' a world premiere, and a celebration of Shakespeare.
Proving that the Bard can be revered with irreverence, the Folger Theatre presents a "lost" play that never was.
Artists and scholars gathered this week to hear and reconsider August Wilson's famous TCG speech about race and theatre.
The lineup will feature Nathan Alan Davis, Shakespeare, and Mfonsio Udofia.
International and local companies converge at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for the quadricentennial of the playwright's death.
Playing Falstaff is a gift that keeps on giving, and not just because it's among the greatest roles in the canon.
New York Shakespeare Exchange, having run through the sonnets, expands its sights to the whole distracted globe.
In a new staging, 7 actors trade off parts, randomly selected each night from---what else?---Yorick's skull.
This week's guest Lue Douthit, director of Play On! at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, discusses translating Shakespeare. Plus the editors tallk Humana.
From clown noses to wolf heads, America to Israel, 'Presenting Shakespeare' showcases how the Bard's work is sold around the world.
Anna Deavere Smith, Bill Rauch, and Jo Bonney will return to the theatre to perform and direct.
The couple behind Houston's Stark Naked Theatre Company works well together.
With the help of Asian-American advisors, Lamplighters Music Theatre is radically recovering the Gilbert & Sullivan classic.
The theatre will remount some productions, including 'King Lear' and 'The Imaginary Invalid.'
The season will feature plays about gun control, evolutionary biologists, con artists, and leading ladies onstage.
Next season at the Minneapolis theatre will include 'Pericles,' 'Fiddler on the Roof,' and a Lynn Nottage play.
The company's managing director has accepted a new position in New York City.
Sholem Asch's contested Yiddish classic is grist for Vogel and Taichman's meditative new play-within-a-play.
Hilary Bettis's new play is about the disappearing women of Mexico's Ciudad Juarez.
The Playwrights Foundation will feature readings of new plays by Hansol Jung, Walt McGough, and Andrew P. Saito, among others.
The season will feature August Wilson, T.D. Mitchell, and James Lecense.
Lin-Manuel Miranda won the top honor; 'Gloria' by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and 'The Humans' by Stephen Karam were named finalists.
Shaw will bring his directing, performing, and choreographing skills to the new role.
Theatres in North Carolina and Mississippi are continuing to make progressive art in a hostile environment, and encourage others to join them.
The season will feature new plays by Steve Martin and Meghan Kennedy, and a new musical from Adam Gopnik and David Shire.
