Editors unveil AT’s annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays and Top 20 Most Produced Playwrights lists and chat with Irene Sankoff, David Hein, and the ubiquitous ...
In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act opened up the U.S. to immigrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, abolishing “national origins” quotas that had previously favored European countries. Set eight years ...
At the 29th Philadelphia Fringe Festival, now running through Sept. 28, the city itself is both audience and performer. Programming director Mikaela Boone describes the festival’s mandate as creating ...
This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers. But, after seeing Oluo ...
An Asian American theatremaker reflects on the intent and impact of Broadway’s ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ and the precedent its latest casting decision may set. AAPAC noted MHE’s South Korea setting, and ...
A local icon’s death signals the end of an era and the beginning of a new look for a once-predominantly African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C. A funny, touching, and devastating ...
Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes. In the singing land that is the musical theatre, ...
LAKE WORTH BEACH, FLA.: Launched in 2014, the New Play Exchange was designed as a way to increase the transparency and efficiency of the play-submission process. In the years since, the National New ...
As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet. Sarah Clare Corporandy’s chest clenched with anxiety as the first lockdown orders were issued ...
“I think the most noble thing an artist can do right now is make something for a young person,” said new Children’s Theatre Company artistic director Rick Dildine. When asking Dildine and Anderson ...
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.
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...