9,658 stories from American Theatre
New York will finally get to see some acclaimed and socially relevant new plays that have received productions and acclaim elsewhere.
The playwrights of 'The World of Extreme Happiness' and 'Caught' talk about their complicated relationship to their heritage and the nuances of being Hapa.
Works by Lynn Nottage and Amy Herzog alternate with Monty Python, Alfred Hitchcock and Lee Hall.
The longtime artistic associate of the NYC avant-garde collective will now co-lead the company.
She's tackled nearly every kind of role at every kind of theatre, and this purple-haired local treasure shows few signs of skipping town or slowing down.
In response to the president's speech, a new U.S. arts-and-culture agency issues a call for stories and poems as part of a plan create new civic rituals.
The Los Angeles-based classical collective has a new leader with nonprofit experience.
The former founding artistic director of California's Capital Stage Company is tapped to lead the South Florida theatre.
The San Diego theatre's 2015-'16 season has West Coast premieres and a rotating rep. Also this season: a new associate artistic director, Rob Lutfy.
The backstage-industry nonprofit recognizes Eyring's legacy of leadership in the field as well as at Theatre Communications Group.
While his play about gangster clowns surfs the immersive-theatre wave, the well-known blogging playwright has other tricks up his sleeve.
Katori Hall's play, about an imaginary encounter at the Lorraine Hotel on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, has been among the most-performed plays on American stages in the…
From the fanciful to the profound, and all points in between---including the fanciful and profound, i.e., Gertrude Stein---this week onstage boast as wide a range of authors, genres and thea…
A real-life controversy about a children's book from 1959 is the basis for a new play with freshly relevant themes.
The author of 'The Mountaintop' talks about the inspiration and research for her new play, based on a true story from Rwanda.
Festivals in New York, story slams in Chicago, theme parks in SoCal---call it a tricoastal edition.
The longtime artistic director will step down in August after 15 years at the helm of one of California's largest Shakespeare theatres.
How a bi-national production of 'Antigone' took shape in remote Brzezinka, where Grotowkski's animating spirit still holds sway.
The ensemble of Cutting Ball's 'Antigone' ranged widely in age and experience, but their intensive work in Brzezinka fused them into an ensemble.
Mounting and touring an acclaimed new work about the Armenian genocide, 'Armine, Sister,' isn't even the biggest controversy swirling around the Polish director.
Caption this image and win Richard Nelson's "Apple Family Plays" anthology!
Three new reports with data from 2012 show how much, and why, Americans participate in cultural activities. One takeaway: Get 'em while they're young.
Now in its sixth year, the new-play festival begun by Kelley Girod will feature a premiere by Nathan Yungerberg, 'Pousada, Azul,' and several short plays.
The longtime Old Dominion director makes the move to the West Coast, as Novato makes plans for a move from community to professional.
The TV star and sometime cabaret and theatre performer places his bets on the musical 'Honeymoon in Vegas.'
