Oklahoma City Rep Artistic Director Kelly Kerwin to Step Down
After serving for 3 years as the successor of founder Donald Jordan, she'll leave the company to be closer to her family in New York.
View ArticleRami Margon: Big Diane Energy
What's it like to get 3 chances to play a god? An actor talks to a playwright about confidence, gender, and climate.
View ArticleJosé Rivera and the Family Storm of ‘The Hours Are Feminine’
The playwright's new play at Intar draws on his own youth for lessons about masculinity, assimilation, and language.
View ArticleA Song Heard ’Round the World, and the Unsung Fiddler Who Set It in Motion
‘Ghost Waltz,’ Oliver Mayer’s new play at Latino Theater Company, excavates the life of Juventino Rosas, an obscure musician who wrote one of the most popular earworms of all time.
View ArticlePlaywrights Realm Names Chris Berry Executive Director
Berry comes to New York from Minnesota's Penumbra Theatre.
View ArticleKathleen Culebro to Leave Amphibian Stage
Co-artistic director Jay Duffer will take over as the company's sole leader.
View ArticleSummers in Rhinebeck, Where Birds Sing and New Musicals Grow
For 13 years, Kathy Evans’s new-work development program in upstate New York has given writers what they need to make new musicals.
View ArticleJeremy O. Harris to Head Williamstown’s New Creative Collective
The writer of 'Slave Play' will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
View ArticleCivic Scores: A Modest Proposal for Theatre Beyond the Stage
Why can't Americans talk to each other anymore? Theatre artists may have precisely the right skills to kickstart discourse and rekindle empathy.
View ArticleJohn Dillon: A Mild-Mannered Man With the Soul of an Adventurer
At Milwaukee Rep and around the world, this passionate director put his focus on others---writers, actors, audiences---and we all benefited.
View ArticleJohn Martin to Retire from Florida Rep
The executive director has been with the company for 23 years.
View ArticleHow to Retell a Classic: The Many Shades of ‘The Color Purple’
Playwright and screenwriter Marcus Gardley may not have known it at the time, but he had been preparing to adapt Alice Walker's iconic tale for decades.
View ArticleEmily Comisar Named Exec Artistic Director of Oklahoma City Rep
The company's current managing director will merge that role with that of artistic director, which Kelly Kerwin will leave in June.
View ArticleFor Winnie Holzman, ‘Choice’ Is Personal
Her new play at McCarter Theatre explores the topic of abortion, minus polemics, plus humor and a touch of mysticism.
View ArticleKatie Bradley Named Theater Mu Interim Artistic Director
A longtime performer and teaching artist with the company, she will serve alongside managing director Anh Thu T. Pham while a successor for Lily Tung Crystal is sought.
View ArticleTCG Names 2024 Rising Leaders of Color
This year's 6-person cohort is based in Chicago.
View ArticleTaproot Theatre Campaigns to Save Its Season and Its Future
The Seattle theatre reports that it needs to raise 62.5 percent more in contributed income than in pre-pandemic times to sustain operations.
View ArticleCome As You Are
Theatre is all about human behavior. Is it time to let audiences be fully human too?
View ArticleSamm-Art Williams, Gentle Giant, Is Called Home
Colleagues and friends of the actor-playwright recall his legacy as a dramatist, poet, producer, mentor, truth teller, and friend.
View ArticleHow Cultural Solidarity Fund Got $1 Million Covid Relief to NYC Arts Workers
A new report details the efforts of 20-plus artists, administrators, and organizations to join forces and give microgrants to colleagues impacted by the pandemic and its effects.
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