Ian Belknap Named New York Stage & Film’s Artistic Director
Starting on Nov. 11, he takes over from interim artistic director Liz Carlson and joins newly promoted associate artistic director Isabelle (Fereshteh) Sanatdar Stevens.
View ArticleThis Month in Theatre History
From British loyalist plays to Suzan-Lori Parks's 'Elements of Style,' Edwin Booth's 'Hamlet' to Lynn Nottage's birth.
View ArticleRemains and Resistance: Native Voices’ ‘Antíkoni’
A new adaptation of Sophocles’s classic will be staged at a museum that once held Native remains—but it’s hardly a staid museum piece.
View ArticleDallas’s Latinidades Was More Than a Festival
This celebration of community stretched over weeks and connected Latine and Latin American performance.
View ArticleDouble Edge Theatre, Where the Land Is a Star and a Collaborator
The Massachusetts collective, known for its site-roving parade spectacles, also convenes artists and activists and community around its rural roots.
View ArticleHermitage Major Theater Award, Joe A. Callaway Awards, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
View ArticleWe Can Work It Out
Two new books lift the voices of designers and production workers on their art and their labor.
View ArticleAnn Ronell: Count Her In
In an excerpt from the new book 'Women Writing Musicals,' we learn about the songwriter who became the first woman to write music and lyrics for a full Broadway score, in 1942.
View Article‘Pacific Overtures’ Gets an East West Encore
Sondheim and Weidman's masterpiece about Japan's 'opening' to the West returns to an L.A. company whose history with the show is as tightly intertwined as its subjects are.
View ArticleDo You Hear the People Sing?
In staging a revolution and its confusing aftermath, the musical ‘We Live in Cairo’ also seeks to dramatize the everyday life of Arabs.
View ArticleOffscript: David Henry Hwang’s Mistaken Identity
In a recent conversation with publications director Kelundra Smith, the 'Yellow Face' playwright talked about progress in representation and the unfairness of criticism.
View ArticleRaymond O. Caldwell Named Fountain Theatre’s Next Artistic Director
Succeeding co-founding leader Stephen Sachs, the D.C.-based director will assume full leadership of the L.A. theatre next April.
View ArticleJacob’s Pillow to Open New Doris Duke Theatre
Next summer, a multi-day celebration will kick off a new international dance venue for the longtime company in the Berkshires.
View ArticleThe Undiscovered Country
Born in Covid lockdown, The Exodus Ensemble is shaking the New Mexico desert with immersive work, including their new ‘HAMLET.’
View ArticleWrite It Out! Announces Staged Readings for HIV World AIDS Day
Short plays from the 2024 cohort will be featured at the LGBT Center in New York City on Dec. 2.
View ArticleHow Do You Manage?
Who better to take the pulse of a changing industry than with the folks at the hub of the wheel: stage managers.
View ArticleFeatured Contributors, Fall 2024
A check-in with stage managers, and ensemble creation in the New Mexico desert.
View ArticleMichael Lluberes Steps Down From FIM Flint Repertory Theatre
After a tenure that included a name change and several acclaimed productions, he'll leave the theatre in the interim hands of managing director Nicole Samsel.
View ArticleLanguage in the Driver’s Seat in ‘Racecar Racecar Racecar’
Kallan Dana's intimate, unsettling play, a production of The Hearth redirected from the shuttered Connelly Theatre, reemerges at A.R.T./New York.
View ArticleAdam Siegel Named Second Stage’s New Executive Director
Currently managing director of Lincoln Center Theater, Siegel will join his former LCT colleague Evan Cabnet at the helm of Second Stage next April.
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