Sara Bruner Named Next Producing Artistic Director of Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Bruner will take over at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in 2026.
View ArticleImagination Stage Names Joanne Seelig Lamparter Chief Artistic Programming...
Seelig Lamparter will take over from retiring founding artistic director Janet Stanford.
View ArticleShaina Taub: Making Feminism Sing in ‘Suffs’
Her musical about the suffragists behind the 19th Amendment comes to Broadway with a few amendments of its own (and with Hillary Clinton as a producer).
View ArticlePassing the Torch (Without Getting Burned)
In our Winter issue, we look at training that doesn't simply instruct young artists in the ways of the world but aims to empower them to change it.
View Article$10 Million Gift at 59E59 Means Rent-Free Runs for Producing Companies
Companies who stage works at the NYC venue now won't have to worry about rental costs.
View ArticleJ.T. Rogers: Looking Outward
The playwright of 'Oslo' and the new 'Corruption' likes to wrestle in public with the things that trouble him and our politics.
View ArticleJon Fosse, Luis Alfaro, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy Deliver World Theatre Day...
This year's statements emphasize peace, truth, and resourcefulness.
View ArticleFeatured Contributors
Diversifying design training and hiring, and an effort to fund plays about science.
View ArticleCritical Steps: Under Covered
Even with arts journalism jobs in decline, emerging theatre critics keep training and finding new outlets for their voices.
View ArticleHow Aaron Tveit Made the Cut for ‘Sweeney Todd’
A tenor known for romantic leads, the actor-singer tackles the iconic demon barber with only a slight key change and an emphasis on the humanity as much as the horror.
View ArticleBrecht-Weill-Disney Mashup ‘Threepenny Mickey’ Headed for Broadway
2 works now in the public domain will be joined in a new 'pop opera hybrid' version.
View ArticleOnce More Unto the Breach for the Guthrie and Shakespeare’s Henriad
The flagship theatre memorably mounted Shakespeare's popular history plays in 1990, and now they're back for another repertory rotation.
View ArticleThe Courage to Produce: A Conversation on High School Censorship
A dialogue on how students, teachers, and parents can push back against a wave of conservative legislation and intimidation that threatens to chill theatrical expression.
View ArticleJill A. Anderson Named Managing Director of Children’s Theatre Company
Syracuse Stage's managing director, who began her theatre career in the Midwest, will take her place this summer next to CTC's new artistic director, Rick Dildine.
View ArticleWindham-Campbell Prizes, L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, and More
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
View ArticleReleasing the Potential Energy of ‘The Light Chasers’
In Know Theatre's new show, Cloud Cult's 2010 concept album becomes an interstellar family drama set somewhere between Ohio and Proxima Centauri.
View ArticlePittsburgh Public, American Theatre to Partner for Criticism Fellowship
Applications for the new program, designed to mentor early-career and aspiring critics in the region, are now open through July 15.
View ArticleA Safe Room for Bold Plays
The 3 writers in Second Stage's Judith Champion Reading Series---Sarah Mantell, D.A. Mindell, and Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin---reflect on their plays and their process.
View Article‘The Last Yiddish Speaker’: Who They’ll Come for First
Deborah Zoe Laufer's new play, now kicking off its rolling world premiere at Philadelphia's InterAct Theatre, imagines an eerily plausible fascist future.
View ArticleHenrik & Heidi & Anton & Amy
Why and how Amy Herzog and Heidi Schreck took time from writing their own plays to adapt 'An Enemy of the People' and 'Uncle Vanya,' respectively, for Broadway.
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