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The commissioned playwright will use Life Jacket's ethnographic research approach to create a play about trans people in the U.S.
Whether students are in the process of reclaiming or rejecting their identities, a new book offers resources to help subvert stereotypes and understand embodiment.
Teo rounds out the team, formed after the retirement of the company's namesake leader last year.
The theatre will help develop musical theatre programs at 3 middle schools.
A Host of People is joining forces with Detroit Action to dramatize the legacy of housing discrimination in a participatory, collective setting.
On this special pre-Tony Awards edition, we talk to the playwrights nominated for 'Cost of Living' and 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' and to Playbill's Diep Tran.
After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded.
Travis Russ and Melissa Moschitto talk about the delicate, revealing work of recovering stories of queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks from 100-plus years ago.
Madeline Myers has written the new musical 'Double Helix' with and for its lead performer, Samantha Massell, who plays a woman scientist unjustly neglected by history.
What does winning the Regional Theatre Tony mean for the 106-year-old theatre? For artistic director Danny Feldman, it's a sign that the often struggling theatre is on the right track.
The new program will allow artists and community organizations access to the theatre's physical spaces.
This month a famous cross-dressing performer finds love and success in her farewell tour, 2 new theatres are inaugurated, history is made at the Tony Awards, and an original musical gives vo…
Early-career writers Amanda L. Andrei, Citlali Pizarro, and afrikah saleh comprise this year's cohort.
A latecomer to acting, he had a rich, varied, decades-long career onstage and on screen, not only as a performer but as a mentor, teacher, and leader.
Emilio Sosa and J. Jared Janas compare notes on the costumes, hair, wigs, and makeup they've made for a wide array of periods and teams this season.
The Public Theater's abrupt cancellation of the influential new-works showcase raises questions about the future of innovative work in NYC and globally.
Lear deBessonet, Maria Friedman, and Tommy Kail compare notes on staging 'Into the Woods,' 'Sweeney Todd,' and 'Merrily We Roll Along.'
The survey also tracks educator's concerns around censorship and post-COVID stats.
The leader, performer, and educator succeeds deputy artistic director and education director Greta Lambert (no relation) in the role.
Residents are provided a home, travel, food, a $550 stipend, and a flexible $1,000 writers' choice fund to support the development of their musical.
Macella joins the company as it establishes a new permanent artistic home following the purchase of a building in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.
Jennings comes to MTC after 19 seasons at Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C.
How the creators of 'A Transparent Musical' have adapted the hit series about a Jewish family's multiple gender journeys into a stage musical, premiering tonight at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum.
Marina Zurita is the director of this new work about solidarity and struggle among Brazilian waste pickers, but she's not the piece's sole author.
Winners of the playwriting prize receive a $5,000 cash award, a public reading, and a summer workshop as part of Vassar's Powerhouse Theater Season.
