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In this excerpt from his new memoir 'Jack in the Box: Or, How to Goddamn Direct,' Jack O'Brien recounts his fierce face-off with theatre giant George Abbott.
For 25 years, this hugely influential program welcomed directors from all over the world to compare work and share practices. Is it really over?
In 'Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family' and 'The Gospel Woman' this journalist-turned-playwright recovers overlooked histories---and that work started at home.
Many theatregoers in the region say they'd be more likely to attend if masks were required.
This year's 24-hour intensive will make a star studded in-person return with six new works developed over the course of one night.
November looks back on some Houdini hijinks, the origins of two major regional theatres, and a First Nations-led premiere.
Samuel will receive a cash award and a complimentary annual American Theatre Critics Association membership.
The Met Opera-bound revival, directed by Robert O'Hara, plays this weekend in Omaha, where the influential Black leader was born Malcolm Little in 1925.
Goldberg leaves the post after 18 years, and the O'Neill will next seek an interim artistic director.
After 14 years with the Chicago theatre, 5 of them as artistic director, Estle is leaving to lead Milwaukee's Next Act Theatre.
His new play 'Straight Line Crazy' may treat an American subject, but the English playwright is still addressing some of his chief political and social preoccupations.
Ekelund will replace interim managing director, David J. Roberts
Carlson transitions into the role immediately as current artistic director, Chris Burney prepares for his departure in December 2022
Footsteps on the roof, mischief-making specters, self-opening doors, and more fill our annual Halloween anthology of tales from haunted theatres.
A new play by Rogelio Martinez returns to a painful and contested piece of post-Cold War history and attempts to reckon with its wounds and lessons.
Fort Myers's Florida Rep reckons with at least $1 million in damage, while other theatres, and the region in general, face a steep path to recovery.
In the first theatre project undertaken by the influential screenwriting platform, the Brooklyn-based writer will receive $10,000 to develop a new work with the Florida theatre.
Created to broaden racial and ethnic portrayals of Jewishness onstage, the program provides playwrights with a $10,000 commission and a $5,000 developmental budget to support the creation of…
The Bay Area singer-songwriter will receive a $10,000 award funded by the RHE Foundation and Theatre Bay Area performing arts organization.
22 BITOC grantees will receive a total of $900,000 in general operating support and the opportunity to join REBUILD: A Learning Cohort.
With a 40th anniversary staging of 'Ubu The King,' the Actors' Gang co-founder is revisiting his company's roots, though he never strayed very far from them in the first place.
This month Woodzick talks to the singer-songwriter about growing up gay, playing the guitar, looking for role models, and her new musical, 'F*ck7thGrade.'
Irwin, whose previous post was as marketing director and associate producer for California's Laguna Beach Playhouse, takes on a new role at NJRep.
The latest entry in the new-play festival game, staged in August across 5 venues in an arts-centric town, had impressive local buy-in and enthusiastic full houses.
Back in August after a pandemic hiatus, the biennial gathering of Black theatremakers reclaimed its status as both a reunion and a showcase for new work.
