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The college's Beinecke Library is proud to present an award to the Brooklyn-based playwright, one of three dramatists given the prestigious $150,000 prize.
The 20th festival plans developmental stagings of new plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jacklyn Backhaus.
Fantasy and mythology cross-breed with early American history in Nathan Allen's ambitious three-play series, not at last running in repertory.
Expanding its offerings to a second week, the Denver Center's annual new-play meeting gives featured writers more time to get their plays in shape---many of them for the mainstage.
The small Chicago theatre, newly affiliated with Actors Equity, plans an ambitious slate of new plays by Madhuri Shekar, Charise Castro Smith and Callie Kimball.
Suzan-Lori Parks's Civil War-era epic receives the $100,000 prize for a play inspired by American history.
The Irish playwright talks about the 'supernaturalism of the everyday,' and about structure and ghosts and Dickens.
New spins on old chestnuts, from the Greeks to the French golden age, mingle with contemporary tragedies, tete-a-tetes and a few tunes.
Classics by Inge and O'Neill share the stage with new plays by John Patrick Shanley, Alan Bennett and Terry Teachout.
Veteran composer John Kander talks and emerging talent Nick Blaemire, both with new musicals at Arlington's Signature Theatre this month, trade thoughts about the state of musical theatre.
Morita, who plans to continue and amplify the theatre's focus on new and diverse voices, will be among the few women of color at the helm of a Bay Area theatre.
The event offers $15-30 tickets to more than 100 productions at Chicago theatres, and experts and theatre leaders say it's putting more (and new) butts in seats.
New theatre plans two world premieres and several local premieres, including works by George Brant, Lauren Gunderson and Jonathan Tolins.
As the battle over L.A.'s non-remunerative 99-seat plan comes to a head, players on either side have radically different prognoses for the health of the city's sprawling theatre scene.
The longtime Dallas theatre artist, who's worked with the Latino/Chicano theatre for a year, will join the leadership team with a.d. David Lozano.
Slate includes revivals of Sondheim's 'Sunday in the Park With George' and 'The Fantasticks,' as well as a new-works fest and world premieres by Michael Benjamin Washington and D. Tucker Smi…
The actress, now starring in 'End of the Rainbow' at International City Theatre, talks about learning to love Judy and why working in real estate wasn't right for her.
The troupe's 87th summer series also includes Kate Baldwin starring in 'Bells Are Ringing' and the romance 'Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.'
Also on tap at the Vermont theatre are regional premieres of 'Outside Mullingar' and 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily.'
The BP oil spill, the Tiananmen Square massacre and the legacy of the Black Power movement are among the inspirations for plays in the theatre's next season.
The theatre's 2015--16 seasons spans three stages with a variety of musicals and dramas. World premieres include a new John Denver revue and Joanna Murray-Smith's 'American Song.'
Artistic director Charles McMahon contributes a new work about the iconic author. Also on the roster are plays by Naomi Iizuka, Anna Ziegler and Glen Berger.
To replace its longtime a.d., the venerable Minneapolis company taps an actor/director with a wide-ranging---you might even say 'diverse'---history in U.S. resident theatres.
A small, smart venue in a small, smart Iowa town keeps its eye on national trends and tends toward new, often challenging plays.
A new history play set in the future holds its own alongside classics, as well as new works by Stoppard and Hare and a pair of ace musical revivals.
