The Subtext: Rachel Bublitz Is Writing for Her Younger Self
The writer of 'Funny, Like an Abortion' and 'The Night Witches' talks about long commutes, writing science plays, and the parts she wishes she'd been able to play in school.
View ArticleSt. Louis’s Muny to Receive Regional Tony
The St. Louis musical theatre mainstay, now in its 107th season, will receive the special award on June 8.
View ArticleSummer Stock: A Vibe Check
How is this long-standing American theatre tradition faring in an age of social media, raised expectations, and post-Covid recovery?
View ArticleOffscript: Danya Taymor & Knud Adams’s Ensemble Ethos
This month we talk to 2 Tony-nominated directors who specialize in new plays, and catch up with tireless critic Chris Jones for a recap of the Broadway season.
View ArticleMaurice Emmanuel Parent Named Front Porch Artistic Director
With the departure of co-founder Dawn Simmons, Parent assumes sole leadership on July 1, while education director Pascale Florestal steps up to be the associate artistic director.
View ArticlePulitzers, Steinberg, Lortels, Jerome Fellows, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
View ArticleWorking Theater, Broadway Advocacy Coalition Launch Stage Left Festival
6 readings of social justice-themed plays, programmed to respond to the current moment of political retrenchment, will run over 2 weekends in June.
View Article‘Endlings’ Makes New Waves at Hedgerow Theatre Company
In its regional premiere, Celine Song’s debut play, about older Korean woman who dive for their food, has fresh resonance this time around—and a lot less actual water.
View ArticleConstellation Theatre Company Marks Final Production at Source
After efforts to secure the space, the company embarks on a journey to continue producing elsewhere and close out their time in the black box with ‘Head Over Heels.’
View ArticleUnkindest Cuts: How Theatres Are Managing the Loss of NEA Funds
While some companies can quickly plug the holes in their budgets for now, the ripple effects of across-the-board cutbacks to federal arts funding may be long-lasting and felt by the most vulnerable.
View ArticleWe Must Resist With Radical Imagination
In a recent keynote address at the New School, a Russian-born theatremaker stirred graduates with a message of hope in the face of despair.
View ArticleA Marriage of True Minds in ‘We Are Gathered’
Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities.
View ArticleA Truck Full of Props and Asian Joy
Gaven D. Trinidad's 'Learning to Read by Moonlight' is being produced by 2 companies and staged at 3 different Boston locations, giving its themes of immigrant belonging a wide and hyper-local reach.
View ArticleHow ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Expands the Language of the Musical
A Broadway show about the making of a historic record in Cuba doesn't sacrifice the authenticity of its deep cultural context—or its original language.
View ArticleCharles Strouse, Jedi Master
One of the late composer's musical theatre successors pays tribute to his elder's craft, creativity, and unflappable professionalism.
View ArticleDiversity and Its Discontents: It Was Never About the Money
The business case for a more diverse American theatre is a distraction from our core human and artistic values, which is the ground we must stand on in the fight for DEI.
View ArticlePacific Gets Specific: Life in the Details at New-Play Fest
The most recent edition of South Coast Rep's annual play-development gathering showcased moving works about loss and reupped the theatre's long-standing commitment to emerging writers.
View ArticleThe Theater Offensive Launches Queer [Re]Public Festival
The inaugural four-day festival (running June 26-29) will showcase queer creators of color in dance, theatre, and collaborative artmaking.
View ArticleArtistic Director Nik Whitcomb to Leave Bag&Baggage Productions
Having served since 2022, he will leave to begin a new chapter of public service, including studies in urban planning.
View ArticleFunny, With a Little Teeth: 2 Playwrights on the Lineage and Lens of Molière
Taylor Mac, whose new play 'Prosperous Fools' is loosely inspired by 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme,' and Jeffrey Hatcher, who has a new adaptation of 'The Imaginary Invalid,' talk satire, philanthropy, and...
View ArticleOn the Street Where He Lived: Terrence McNally Way Unveiled
The late playwright of 'Love! Valour! Compassion!' gets an official marker in New York City.
View ArticlePride Plays Comes to D.C. for WorldPride
Michael Urie and the festival's co-founders are bringing Pride Plays to the nation’s capital for this year’s 50th anniversary of WorldPride.
View ArticleBrick Theater’s T4T Fest to Amplify Trans Voices
The festival, running June 3-8 at the Brick, plans to feature work by trans artists for trans audiences.
View ArticleBIPOC Critics Lab, Critical Minded Partner for Cohort at Public Theater
The residency dedicated to creating opportunities for theatre critics of color featured 12 writers in its 2024-25 cohort.
View ArticleDallas Children’s Theater to Restructure and Reduce Programming
In a change addressing significant financial challenges for the small nonprofit, DCT will scale back productions and pause its education program.
View ArticleJoy, Justice, and Ingenuity at TYA/USA
Last month's D.C.-area gathering of makers and advocates of theatre for young people offered a radical yet knowing optimism about the industry and the art form at an especially urgent time.
View ArticleThe Subtext: Andrew Rosendorf Leaves It on the Page
Brian talks to the Minneapolis-based playwright about learning from criticism, connecting with collaborators, and finding his voice.
View ArticleVincent M. Lancisi to Retire From Everyman Theatre
The Baltimore theatre’s founding artistic director will retire at the end of the upcoming 2025-26 season.
View Article‘Jersey’ Twins: How 2 Brothers Are Sharing the Role of a Lifetime
Coby and Chris Oram are living a long-held dream by alternating as Frankie Valli in a Kansas City dinner theatre.
View ArticleNew Nantucket Performing Arts Center Launches With Theatre
The new year-round cultural hub will be home to ACK Theatre Company, while welcoming other cultural organizations, festivals, and artistic endeavors to Nantucket.
View ArticleHigh Ambition, Low Stakes: How Clubbed Thumb Cultivates Strange New Theatre
With this year’s Summerworks festival, the New York City company reaffirms its commitment to new voices in a variety of registers.
View ArticleAmerican Theatre Wing Launches Gavin Creel Fellowships
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Sara Bareilles, Catherine Brunell, and Creel’s friends partner with the Wing to establish the new fellowship.
View ArticleOffscript: Pride With the ‘Come Back to the 5 & Dime’ Team
This month's guests are Shakina Nayfack, Ashley Robinson, and Dan Gillespie Sells, who have turned an iconic 1970s play into a musical, and arts journalist Billy McEntee.
View ArticleKnow a Theatre: Childsplay of Tempe, Arizona
The Southwest's TYA mainstay has been stirring kids' imaginations, and taking their shows on the road in their region and nationally, for nearly 5 decades.
View ArticleWhat Can AI Do for the Arts?
Artificial intelligence can’t write plays or replace in-person gathering, but with a human-centered focus it might help theatres run better and develop more responsive audiences.
View ArticleKitchen Sink Drama in ‘Dhaba on Devon Avenue’
Madhuri Shekar's play, about an intergenerational family tussle over a restaurant and its menu, has its belated Chicago debut in a co-production of Writers Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company.
View ArticleTonys, NTP Grants, SDCF Abe Burrows Award, and More
A roundup of awards, fellowships, and other recognitions.
View ArticleGreg Reiner Named Managing Director of Barrington Stage
Reiner joins the company after 10 years as the NEA’s director of theatre and musical theatre.
View ArticleBag&Baggage Announces Artistic Leadership Committee
Longtime artists, staff, and board members will provide artistic guidance, as producing artistic director Nik Whitcomb departs from Bag&Baggage.
View ArticleJavier Dubon Named Interim Exec Director of Oregon Shakes
Currently OSF's director of marketing and sales, Dubon will replace Gabriella Calicchio while a permanent successor is found.
View ArticleFrom Ping Chong to Pink Fang: A New Chapter for the Company
In addition to the new name—a subversive reclamation of a misnomer for its founder—the company's new chapter will include a co-leadership model and a continued emphasis on new work.
View ArticleAllison Heishman to Lead Both Azuka and Simpatico Theatres
2 Philadelphia companies will collaborate under Heishman’s artistic direction for a joint season of new plays.
View ArticleNew Climate Company 6th Fest Debuts With ‘Last Days of Judas Iscariot’
Led by the climate activist who disrupted 'Enemy of the People' last year, the performance marks the biggest project yet from a production house focused on works addressing climate change.
View ArticleJennifer Bielstein Named Managing Director of Alley Theatre
A seasoned regional theatre leader who currently serves as managing director of San Francisco's ACT, Bielstein is at last taking a leadership role in her home state.
View ArticleWar Pivots and a Pinch of Snuff: Kontakt Highs in Poland
As seen at a recent festival, theatre from Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, and Poland can't help but be shadowed by war and retrenchment in Eastern Europe, though there is still joy and art to fight for as...
View ArticlePlay Well, Be Well: A Report on the Benefits of Youth Arts Engagement
‘Stitching the Threads Together,’ a new literature review from Rand and the Wallace Foundation, details some of the specific ways that arts engagement affects youth well-being.
View ArticleTCG Announces 2025 THRIVE! Grant Recipients
Supported by Theater League of Kansas City, these unrestricted grants to 8 BITOC theatres allow them to advance communities through the arts.
View ArticleAlliance Theatre Announces Brandon Kahn as Managing Director
The previous general manager of Houston’s Alley Theatre comes to the Alliance with over two decades of theatre management experience.
View ArticleNidia Medina & Lou Moreno: There’s No Place Like INTAR
As one artistic director hands the reins to another, both reflect on the storied NYC theatre's legacy, aesthetic, and future.
View ArticleHello, Dolls: The Impact of Unrestricted Grants on Trans Women of Color
As the first year of TCG’s Funds for the Dolls draws to a close, we checked in with the grantees about what this support has meant—and what lies ahead.
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