Superheroes on Native Land, Part I
How a Lakota playwright, 7 Indigenous actors, and an L.A.-based ensemble survived a pandemic, crossed thousands of prairie miles, and confronted centuries of history to make a play.
View ArticleSerious Play: The Art of Wafaa Bilal and Tasneem Mandviwala
When a painter and a performance artist work with theatres, all parties learn lessons about experience, engagement, and ecstasy.
View ArticleNEA Launches ArtsHERE Grants, With Focus on Equity and Access
The new program will provide grants of of $65,000 to $130,000 to organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to equity.
View ArticleSCR Managing Director Paula Tomei to Depart After 44 Years
Tomei, who will leave the theatre next August, has been the company's first and only managing director to date.
View ArticleShirley Jo Finney Lifted Every Soul
The late director was fluent in matters spiritual, emotional, and textual.
View ArticleIrondale, Where the Process Is the Play
The 40-year-old Brooklyn company has spent the year exploring and interweaving major plays of the 20th century, from Glaspell to Williams to Hansberry. Their current show is 'American Blues.'
View ArticleZeniba Now Receives Thom Thomas Award From Dramatists Guild Foundation
The honor, given annually to an alumnus of the foundation's fellows program, comes with $10,000 support.
View ArticleGloria Oladipo Receives Medina Prize for Cultural Criticism
The N.Y.-based reporter and critic is the second recipient of the award, which isgiven by the American Theatre Critics Association.
View ArticleThe Subtext: TyLie Shider’s Rehearsal Dramas
This month Brian talks to a writer inspired by the music his parents made when he was young, as well as by the diverse biographies and interests of the playwrights he admires.
View ArticleOffscript: David Adjmi in Stereo and 3 Dimensions
The writer of 'Stereophonic' talks about his obsessions with detail and destruction, and North Carolina correspondent Lauren Van Hemert fills us in on the Research Triangle theatre scene.
View ArticleTheatrical Mustang: Star Finch’s Place of Questions
This month Woodzick talks to the Bay Area playwright about political disillusionment, the liberation of basic income, and the sacred space of theatre.
View ArticleTheatres No Longer Bound to the Stage
How 6 THRIVE! recipient theatres have embraced new mediums and built new audiences.
View ArticleNot Always a Punchline: Ryan J. Haddad’s ‘Dark Disabled Stories’
In his latest play, published in full in our Fall print edition, the writer/performer probes implicit ableism and the assumptions we make about people we’ll never really know.
View ArticleRebecca Ende Lichtenberg Named Shakespeare Theatre Company Executive Director
Ende Lichtenberg succeeds Chris Jennings, who left last summer for Manhattan Theatre Club.
View Article6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
This L.A.-focused roundup includes a writer-director, a patron services manager, a scenic painter, an actor who's also a marketing director, and more.
View ArticleArts Are the Prescription We Need, Now More Than Ever
We don't just get aesthetic or intellectual benefits from the expressive and performing arts---they can also be literally healing.
View ArticleHudson Valley Shakes Unveils Ambitious Green Design for Permanent Home
The Studio Gang-designed campus for the open-air, slated to break ground in 2024, will meet LEED Platinum standards.
View ArticleHarold Steward Named Chair of TCG Board
Steward, a former co-chair of the board's diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, succeeds Nikkole Salter.
View ArticleAuthenticity and Urgency: New Plays For Us and By Us
How 4 theatres develop work by writers of color with communities of color at the center.
View ArticleTranslating Jon Fosse Isn’t Just About the Words
How an American director became a translator, as well as a sort of U.S. ambassador, for the Norwegian writer who is this year's Nobel Prize winner.
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