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New works by Samuel D. Hunter and by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire were named best play and best musical of 2021-22.
A Chicago-bred director, producer, and teacher, Berry will join Penobscot executive director Jen Shepard to lead the company's 49th season.
A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility, so when the cantankerous Abby is forced to share her quarters with new-arrival Marilyn, she h…
When a young man tries to save his Gullah family home, he dives into the history of his family lineage, the Civil War, and the first town of Black freedmen in America. Mitchelville is a stor…
D'Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy"an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D'Agata's es…
An intimate theatre with a focus on new plays and local stories, its season ends with the return of local star Terry Burrell as 'Lady Day.'
This New York-based company, dedicated to giving neurodiverse theatremakers a space to express their authentic selves, opens a production of '25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' tonight.
Inspired by the story of a DREAMer from Arizona, a new musical makes a humanizing case for the undocument immigrants whose rights he now advocates for.
The actor talks about his voice and craft, his approach to an iconic role, and where the storm ends and the madness begins.
The author of the near-future history play 'King Charles III' turns his attention to our once and possibly future president, but is it a comedy or a tragedy?
For years he was the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization's secret weapon, with an impeccable ear and an ideal combination of passion and practicality.
This month Brian talks to the producing artistic director of Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis about supporting writers, following a unicorn, and teaching doctors to write.
He spent nearly 40 years championing plays and playwrights, both at TCG Books and in American Theatre magazine.
She succeeds Jonathan Shmidt Chapman as leader of the national organization for theatre made for children, young adults, and families.
For this episode we talk to playwright Karen Hartman, who currently has 3 plays making NYC premieres in 59E59's first VOLT Festival.
Amy Freed, Julia Izumi, and Benjamin Benne have received commissions in the theatre's 20x30: Reimagining the Anthropocene project.
The Actors' Career Stability Initiative will grant relief to actors who join the company and have a minimum of $10,000 in student debt.
From Edwin Booth's Richard III to the Federal Dance Project, from 'Fefu and Her Friends' to Odd Fellows Hall, this month featured some remarkable characters.
The finalists are Sylvia Khoury for 'Selling Kabul' and Kristina Wong for 'Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord.'
A joint program of In Other People's Shoes Productions and Camp Bob Waldorf, the pilot will center on a new play by José Cruz González.
An interview about antisemitism, accountability, and Diet Coke with Emma Jude Harris, an American director-dramaturg based in London.
Each award comes with a $75,000 prize and a residency at California Institute of the Arts.
New England theatremakers Aaron Jafferis, Articine, Bess Welden, Sam Plattus, and creative team Gail Burton and Josie Bray have been awarded grants to support their work.
The year-long residency will provide her with the resources and space to develop her new play 'The Kit: Made by Martha.'
In 4 excerpts from a new collection of letters to and from the great musical writer and producer, we read his thoughts on matters large and small, as well as his advice for a young Sondheim.
