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On this Broadway-themed episode, Rob and Alli check in with busy critic Brittani Samuel and talk to choreographer siblings Rick and Jeff Kuperman about their innovative work on 'The Outsider…
'Ghost Waltz,' Oliver Mayer's new play at Latino Theater Company, excavates the life of Juventino Rosas, an obscure musician who wrote one of the most popular earworms of all time.
The playwright's new play at Intar draws on his own youth for lessons about masculinity, assimilation, and language.
What's it like to get 3 chances to play a god? An actor talks to a playwright about confidence, gender, and climate.
May recalls the Astor Place Riot, a vaudeville women's rights advocate, the Moscow Art Theatre, a pioneer of Asian American drama, a Chicano performance troupe, and a beloved Tesori-Kushner …
After serving for 3 years as the successor of founder Donald Jordan, she'll leave the company to be closer to her family in New York.
Ezzard will lead the New Jersey company with artistic director Ricardo Khan.
The executive director will step down this summer after a decade in the position to join Audible Theater as the head of live creative producing.
Led initially by playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Jeremy O. Harris, Black affinity nights are proliferating at theatres across the U.S.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
As Haven Theatre closes its doors after 10 years in the city, it takes with it an initiative that has helped foster 7 cohorts of emerging directors.
A Swedish production about teen insomnia tests the boundaries of storytelling with virtual technology.
Somewhere between the earth and the stars, tradition and experimentation, La MaMa and the Met Opera, he keeps exploring his art form's possibilities.
A new staging of Ghassan Kanafani's novella inaugurates Golden Thread's 2024 Season of Palestine with a reminder of our past and invites us to consider a future of joyful resistance.
Leak succeeds Andrew Hungerford, who has stepped away from the theatre after 10 years.
Tituss Burgess and Azie Dungey discuss faith, adapting a classic, and loving musical theatre.
This month Brian talks to the writer and producer about pivoting from teaching, feeling stuck in development hell, and championing local storytellers.
Craig Lucas's fanciful, freighted romance returns to the theatre that commissioned it, South Coast Repertory, this time with songs attached.
With a 7-show season at 2 of Center Theatre Group's venues, the new artistic director is putting special focus on reviving the beloved, beleaguered Mark Taper Forum.
In this month's Chicago newsletter, theatremakers Jillian Leff and Joel Willison share what inspires them and the American Theatre team invites you to join us for a special event in the city.
This summer, Langs will succeed Scott Zigler as dean of the School of Drama where he studied directing decades ago.
With 3 productions this spring, the busy playwright's kaleidoscopic historical fantasias"and their civic patience"are finding new homes.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
The Ashley Stewart CEO and best-selling author will speak on business models for change at the national convening in Chicago in June.
Hosted by Peppermint, the event will feature staged readings of 10 short plays that will then be made available for fundraising use across the nation.