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Using 'Funny Girl' and 'The Lehman Trilogy' as jumping-off points, 2 theatremakers tackle the often cross-cutting challenges of Jewish representation, and explore why casting alone can't sav…
The director of a new HBO documentary about an overturned conviction in a Nebraska burgh staged a climactic episode in which a community theatre production manages to heal local divisions.
This month Brian talks to the former NYU playwriting professor about growing up in Texas, intuition vs. intellect, and the elusive art of the 10-minute play.
After 2 years held entirely remotely, this year marked TCG's first hybrid conference, with both virtual and in-person gatherings focused on healing and learning.
This year's honorees include Sanaz Toossi, Jeanine Tesori, Alice Childress, Nancy Garcia Loza, Ren Dara Santiago, Kirsten Childs, and Martyna Majok, with lifetime achievement awards for Pear…
She succeeds Robert Falls at the company where she once worked as director of new-play development, after 21 years leading Atlanta's biggest nonprofit theatre.
Currently touring as the low-voiced underworld kingpin Hades, Morrow is drawing on a lifetime of triple-threat experience on Broadway and on the road.
How the historic Los Angeles company has stabilized both its mission and its finances.
The Minnesota theatre is thriving in difficult times thanks to nimbleness, versatility, and time for reflection.
Serving a community of color without identifying as a theatre of color has led this 65-year-old theatre to build bridges, while struggling with fundraising.
The heartwarming and hilarious Tony-nominated musical about four bumbling Broadway stars who help a gay teen throw the prom of her dreams.
The heartwarming and hilarious Tony-nominated musical about four bumbling Broadway stars who help a gay teen throw the prom of her dreams.
A wildly imaginative love story for the modern age between a South Korean "goose father" and a North Korean defector.
The 2019 Pulitzer-winning drama that will leave you reconsidering race, privilege, and the power of theater.
The 2019 Pulitzer-winning drama that will leave you reconsidering race, privilege, and the power of theater.
Two theatremakers explore both the need for and the possibility of a truly diverse aesthetics of the theatre.
When Violet hops onto a Greyhound bus traveling across Arkansas towards a miracle in Tulsa, it turns into the journey of a lifetime.
When Violet hops onto a Greyhound bus traveling across Arkansas towards a miracle in Tulsa, it turns into the journey of a lifetime.
Rival sisters, Baneatta and Beverly, are trying to bury their father"without killing each other first. When a family secret is revealed at the church altar, things go from bad to bonkers.
From Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, a play about two teenagers struggling "with two kinds of unreciprocated love: the kind they feel for each other and the kind they feel for their cou…
From Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, a play about two teenagers struggling "with two kinds of unreciprocated love: the kind they feel for each other and the kind they feel for their cou…
At Mr. Kim's corner variety store, the only thing that isn't for sale is his family legacy"but with big-dollar projects moving in, does everyone have a price?
At Mr. Kim's corner variety store, the only thing that isn't for sale is his family legacy"but with big-dollar projects moving in, does everyone have a price?
This year will showcase new works by Inda Craig-Galván, Elana Dykewomon, Denmo Ibrahim, Iraisa Ann Reilly, and Sharifa Yasmin.
After 7 years leading the Bay Area theatre, he will relocate to New York to rejoin his family full-time.