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Offscript: What Mfoniso Udofia and Awoye Timpo Find in ‘The Grove’

This month we speak to the playwright and director of a new play at the Huntington, and check in with NY Times critic at large Maya Phillips.

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Phillip Fazio Named Naples Players Artistic Director

He joins CEO and executive artistic director Bryce Alexander in leading the organization.

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New Audience Behavior Study Shows Promising Signs

More patrons are buying fewer tickets, new ticket buyers are a growing demographic, and other takeaways from a new report by JCA Performing Arts.

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Jennifer Haley’s ‘Froggy’: Cutscenes and In-Game Action

The author of ‘The Nether’ wrote her new play in graphic-novel form, and now it’s getting a multimedia staging at CenterREP.

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Victoria Podesta Named Chicago Dramatists’ Exec Director

A playwright and former chief communications officer, Podesta began her new role on Jan 1.

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Misha Berson: Instant Friend and Theatre Champion

Her love for the stage—and for those who, like her, wrote about it—drove her peripatetic career, which continued even well into her supposed retirement.

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Crisis or Evolution?

After years of wrenching change, the nonprofit theatre sector can forge ahead by staying connected to its core values of artistic expression, community engagement, and lasting impact.

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Singing From the Last Ditch

Endangered but essential, the work of arts journalists offers a repository and a reflection of the voices we need more than ever in dark times.

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Room to Roam, Room to Grow

What might theatre become if we allowed it to look and act wildly different from the traditional forms we're used to?

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NAMT, Artios, George Jean Nathan, Hermitage, and More

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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The Liminal Theatre Collective Launches in NYC

Among other programs, the collective will offer the Ivy Initiative, a fully subsidized, conservatory-level training program for rising high schoolers in under-resourced communities.

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Atlantic Theater Strike May Be Just the Beginning

A stagehands' walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide.

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James Bundy to Step Down as Yale Rep Artistic Director and Drama Dean in 2026

His two-decade tenure included the launch of the Binger Center for New Theatre and extensive scholarship fundraising to make Yale's prestigious drama training tuition-free.

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Toolkit on Theatre Practices for AAPI/Asian Artists Released

The first of its kind created by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC), it identifies challenges and actionable solutions for AAPI communities.

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TCG’s Theatre Facts: Some Revenue Growth but a Drop in Assets

TCG's newest annual report of U.S. theatres' financial health, which covers 2023, shows plenty of cause for concern amid signs of resilience and promise.

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This Month in Theatre History

The death of the first Barrymore, the birth of Sondheim, and 3 momentous premieres.

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Soho Rep Is Not a Building, Soho Rep Had a Building

3 of the eulogies delivered as part of a farewell/send-off to Walkerspace, the longtime downtown venue of the path-breaking Off-Broadway theatre.

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Jack O’Brien and André Bishop’s Final Duet at Lincoln Center Theater

With an intimate new staging of Ibsen's thorny 'Ghosts,' the versatile director and seasoned producer, who's nearing the end of his LCT tenure, are not going quietly.

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Kalita?

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow.

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Artists Mount 1st Amendment Challenge to New NEA Grant Requirements

Filed by the ACLU on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, the suit is aimed at a new anti-trans guideline recently added by the endowment.

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Melynda Burdette Wintrol Named MET Managing Director

Wintrol starts her new role at the Frederick, Md., theatre immediately.

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NEA Drops Requirement That Applicants Agree to Anti-Trans Guideline

The move comes just a day after the ACLU filed a suit on behalf of a number of arts organizations, though for now the "gender ideology" language is still part of the grant awarding process.

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IATSE and Atlantic Reach Tentative Deal After 2-Month Strike

If ratified, the deal would make the Atlantic the first regularly producing Off-Broadway nonprofit with a unionized production crew.

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a.k. payne’s ‘Furlough’s Paradise’ Wins Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

Their two-hander about cousins sharing grief and comparing plans for utopia is part of the writer's growing body of work.

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Offscript: Nilo Cruz’s Search for Beauty

In this episode, Gabriela talks to the Pulitzer-winning playwright about his new triple-play in Miami, and Rob checks in with LA Times arts reporter Ashley Lee.

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New Fund to Support Midsize TYA Theatres

Theatre for Young Audiences USA and Theater League of Kansas City partner to grant unrestricted funds of $5000 to $10,000.

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Cheryl Collins Named Exec Director of Orlando Shakes

Previously executive director of Orlando Ballet, she brings experience in development and community connections to her new role.

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New Report Surveys Critical Landscape for Theatre Journalists of Color

Critical Minded's new report, 'Topdogs and Underdogs,' looks at the effects of the publishing industry's contraction on writers of color, and recommends paths forward.

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Shubert Artistic Circle, Thrown Stone Commission, USITT

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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Exec Producer Bobb Cooper to Retire from Valley Youth Theatre

After nearly 3 decades of leadership, he'll pass the torch to Leigh Ann Dolan.

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Shonali Burke Appointed Managing Director of People’s Light

After a national search, she joins the company as they head into their 50th anniversary season.

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Alliance Managing Director Mike Schleifer to Leave for Lincoln Center Theater

After 11 years at the Atlanta theatre, he'll take on the same role at the Tony-eligible NYC company.

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Athol Fugard Was My Hero

Ferocious in his devotion to theatre and social justice, but unfailingly kind and gracious to others, he stood as a moral compass—and not just for apartheid-era South Africa.

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Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes to Leave Woolly Mammoth

She will go on to serve as artistic director of LCT3 and producer at Lincoln Center Theater this fall.

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The Road to Athol: An Illustrated Tour

One of Athol Fugard's most dedicated photographers started out as an awestruck fan. This is his tribute to the late dramatist, in words and photos.

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Feud for Thought: How I Made a Play Out of a Family Drama

A leading documentary theatre creator recounts her beginnings in the practice, which began close to home—literally.

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Mydera Taliah Robinson Named Theatre Horizon Exec Director

Prior to the role, she served the theatre for 6 years as education coordinator and director of community investment.

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How the 2 Sides of Lisa D’Amour Are Fused in ‘Frozen Section’

Her new play at the Catastrophic Theatre draws on both the experimental sensibility of PearlDamour and on the unsettled naturalism of 'Detroit.'

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Blue Ink Award, Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship, New Harmony Project, and More

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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Rosalba Rolón and Adam Ashraf Elsayigh to Deliver World Theatre Day 2025 U.S....

The 2 U.S. theatremakers join the previously announced Theodoros Terzopoulos, who delivers the International World Theatre Day message.

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Letters to the Editor: The Business End

Readers respond to a recent article advocating that theatre schools teach their students more about the trade they'll be entering.

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SpeakEasy Stage Appoints Dawn M. Simmons as Artistic Director

She succeeds founding artistic director Paul Daigneault, who led the company for over 3 decades.

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Artistic Director Jonathan Berry Steps Down From Penobscot Theatre

Starting his tenure in 2022, he was instrumental in rebuilding audiences and expanding programming.

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Dallas Children’s Theater Names Emily Ernst Artistic Director

She succeeds Nancy Schaeffer in the role.

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Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ to Be Staged as Nationwide Immersive Spectacle

Play will aim to create a visceral experience of mass psychosis, groupthink, and terror.

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Lenelle Moïse’s ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G’: What Draws Us Together

An interview with the playwright about museums, Black creativity, and asexual longing.

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La MaMa Umbria Announces 2025 Symposium

This year's artists include Milo Rau, Simon McBurney, Dan Hurlin, Liesl Tommy, Stefanie Batten Bland, and Wesley Ruzibiza.

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Indie D.C. Theatre Artists Regroup After Capital Fringe Shuttering

The new festival, created by Pinky Swear Productions, Theatre Prometheus and Nu Sass Productions, aims to promote the power of independent stage voices in the face of political repression.

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PlayPenn Announces Reimagined and Expanded New Play Conference

This summer's 2025 iteration will bring new plays into communities through collaborations with Philadelphia theatres.

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Toward a Theatre of Care

A caregiver interview project in D.C. and a ritual-creating program for formerly incarcerated folks in New Jersey.

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