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The director of the world premiere of 'Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side' shares what unlocked this haunting play for him and the creative team.
Earlier this month, Terrence Spivey's play about the last slave ship, Clotilda, had its premiere in the Alabama community its survivors built.
How one historically white theatre company in Virginia has invested in reaching new audiences, and fostering writers, of color.
Stephen McKinley Henderson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ntozake Shange will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwright's Sidewalk, and A.R.T./New York will be recognized for …
Stori Ayers and Charly Evon Simpson resigned in solidarity with a performer whose assault they feel was mishandled. That performer says the problem is bigger than a single incident.
From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.
Both artists will use the award, intended to highlight veteran artists no longer in the limelight, to continue writing.
His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, 'Dark Disabled Stories,' is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disab…
Proposed drag bans aren't really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren't just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods---they're also attacking an art a…
Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.
With Eugene Lee, Trinity Rep's founder leader built a true resident theatre and forged a distinct and visceral aesthetic.
At Trinity Rep, Hall built a questing, adventurous theatre and brought a company of actors, and Providence audiences, along with him.
Kaas-Lentz will succeed Cynthia Fuhrman in the role, after having served as PCS's interim managing director since March 2022.
The program will accept applications from early-career journalists and critics of color until Tuesday, March 7 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
The recipients, who were announced and awarded at an in-person ceremony last night at Lincoln Center, will each receive $550,000.
Diaz's play 'Things With Friends' will be staged at the 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival.
The open membership policy, which has sharply increased the percentage of union members of color since 2021, will mean a phase-out of the Equity Membership Candidate program.
The winner will be named at the award presentation and 45th anniversary celebration on March 27 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
The unique partnership also announced grants for new works at 2 New England theatres.
Succeeding the theatre's founding artistic director, he will have led the company through nearly 17 years and several cycles of community-collaborative shows.
The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 prize and commemorative trophy.
The administrators will work in a three-pronged model of shared leadership.
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
Slated for May, this year's gathering will feature performances, speeches, training, networking, and more.
7 new playwrights will be in residence with the New York-based Asian American and Pacific Islander theatre company.
