NEW YORK CITY: The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded fellowships this year to 223 American and Canadian scientists, scholars, writers, and artists, selected from nearly 5,000 applicants. The theatre ...
One of three plays in InterAct Theatre Company’s Philly Cycle, ‘Seng’s Hair Salon’ blends salon life, unaddressed trauma, and inspiration from Philly’s Southeast Asian communities. “I have always ...
As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...
It was a refrain Kate Powers heard repeatedly as she began to knock on the (digital) doors of corrections facilities throughout Minnesota in early 2017, attempting to get a foot in the door for her ...
Lynn Nottage returns to the top of this list, which she dominated last year as well, after popping on and off the list since 2016. She earns the top spot on the strength not only of Clyde’s, but a ...
From Lecoq and Laban to Michael Chekhov and Suzuki, U.S. movement training derives its strength and purpose from abroad. The American actor-in-training today can choose to study many disciplines that ...
Last November, we witnessed two troubling examples of university productions disrespecting a playwright’s intent in regard to casting. Clarion University in Pennsylvania had to cancel their production ...
This is the second of two “What Is to Be Done” columns by Bobbitt; the first is here. Soooo…I probably spend 10 hours a week on board “stuff”: planning and scheduling meetings, pulling and creating ...
The pandemic forced educators to reimagine theatre training, and while inflation and dwindling enrollment are adding pressure, some programs are using this moment to innovate. Across the country, as ...
*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...
The beautiful thing about theatre is that there is never just one way to do it. Directors are able to take a piece and stage it in new and creative ways, while holding true to the story and the text.
In Jeremy O. Harris’s provocative Slave Play (the complete text of which is published in our July/August 2019 print edition, and which is slated for a Broadway transfer this fall), the MacGregor ...