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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

ENOUGH! Seeks Short Anti-Gun Violence Plays From Teens by American Theatre Editors

Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:06PM

Adrian Hall, American Original by American Theatre Editors

With Eugene Lee, Trinity Rep's founder leader built a true resident theatre and forged a distinct and visceral aesthetic.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:05PM

The Theatre That Adrian Hall Built by American Theatre Editors

At Trinity Rep, Hall built a questing, adventurous theatre and brought a company of actors, and Providence audiences, along with him.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:04PM

Liam Kaas-Lentz Becomes Portland Center Stage Managing Director by American Theatre Editors

Kaas-Lentz will succeed Cynthia Fuhrman in the role, after having served as PCS's interim managing director since March 2022.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:10PM

TCG’s 2023 Rising Leaders of Color Will All Be Arts Journalists by American Theatre Editors

The program will accept applications from early-career journalists and critics of color until Tuesday, March 7 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:40AM

Charlotte Brathwaite, Kristina Wong Win Doris Duke Artist Awards by American Theatre Editors

The recipients, who were announced and awarded at an in-person ceremony last night at Lincoln Center, will each receive $550,000.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:00AM
Monday, February 13, 2023

Kristoffer Diaz Wins 2023 Blue Ink Award by American Theatre Editors

Diaz's play 'Things With Friends' will be staged at the 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:14AM
Friday, February 10, 2023

Actors’ Equity Makes Open Access Permanent by American Theatre Editors

The open membership policy, which has sharply increased the percentage of union members of color since 2021, will mean a phase-out of the Equity Membership Candidate program.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:49PM

Blackburn Prize Announces 10 Finalists for 2023 by American Theatre Editors

The winner will be named at the award presentation and 45th anniversary celebration on March 27 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:24PM

EST/Sloan Announces 11 New Science-Oriented Play Commissions by American Theatre Editors

The unique partnership also announced grants for new works at 2 New England theatres.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:38PM

Cornerstone Artistic Director Michael John Garcés to Step Down by American Theatre Editors

Succeeding the theatre's founding artistic director, he will have led the company through nearly 17 years and several cycles of community-collaborative shows.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:22AM

Vinson Cunningham Wins 2021-22 Nathan Award for Criticism by American Theatre Editors

The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 prize and commemorative trophy.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:14AM

Sharon Playhouse Names New Leadership Team by American Theatre Editors

The administrators will work in a three-pronged model of shared leadership.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:50AM
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

White Light, White Heat: ‘Little Foxes’ and ‘Appropriate’ in Rep by American Theatre Editors

South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PM

2023 TYA/USA Festival & Conference Headed for Arizona by American Theatre Editors

Slated for May, this year's gathering will feature performances, speeches, training, networking, and more.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:47AM
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Ma-Yi Names New Writers Group Members by American Theatre Editors

7 new playwrights will be in residence with the New York-based Asian American and Pacific Islander theatre company.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:28PM

Digital Access Research Project Launches at Harvard by American Theatre Editors

Focusing on the digital accessibility of performing arts, the project is being coordinated by researcher and dramaturg Magda Romanska.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM
Monday, February 6, 2023

This Month in Theatre History by American Theatre Editors

February recalls the premieres of 2 groundbreaking Black musicals on Broadway, the contentious beginnings of English theatre in the Big Easy, and a little company that could in Pennsylvania.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:37PM

‘Roe’ Gets a Bittersweet Texas Homecoming by American Theatre Editors

Lisa Loomer’s play about the historic decision arrives at 2 theatres in a state that’s once again on the front lines of the reproductive rights battle.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:42PM
Friday, February 3, 2023

Cincinnati Playhouse Announces First Incubator Program Members by American Theatre Editors

The inaugural Incubator program members include 9 organizations and 2 artists.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:35PM

2023 Black Choreographers Festival Runs This Month by American Theatre Editors

The festival will present BCF @ CSUEB at the Cal State East Bay University Theater on Feb. 11 and New Voices/New Works at Dance Mission Theater on Feb. 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:31PM

Clarence Coo Wins Williamstown’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award by American Theatre Editors

The award comes with a $10,000 prize and an accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission for a new play, to be read at the festival this summer.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:27PM

Ryan Scott Oliver, Ethan Lipton Win 2023 Kleban Prize by American Theatre Editors

The awards ceremony will be available to stream on Broadway On Demand.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:43PM
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Amanda Feldman Named CSC Managing Director by American Theatre Editors

She joins Classic Stage Company after years as managing director of the new-play-focused Page 73.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:57AM

‘Sign’ of the Times: Lorraine Hansberry’s 2nd Play Gets 2 New Looks by American Theatre Editors

A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window' is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:12AM

The Play That Got Away: A History of ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ by American Theatre Editors

Lorraine Hansberry's long-awaited sophomore effort was greeted coolly, even confusedly, in 1964, but ambivalence---about art, activism, and their fraught intersection---has always been in th…

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:10AM

Rachel Brosnahan Reads the ‘Sign’ in Iris Brustein’s Window by American Theatre Editors

For her first stage role in a while, the 'Mrs. Maisel' actor is ready to embrace the role of another imperfect but lovable woman performer in a rocky marriage.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:08AM
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Remembering Robert E. Somerfeld by American Theatre Editors

Known for his absurdist one-act plays,' Somerfeld was also an accomplished copywriter and screenwriter.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:06PM

Equity, L.A. Producers Team for ‘Catch Up California’ Rally by American Theatre Editors

The rally launched fundraising efforts for the Equitable Payroll Fund.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:07PM

NAMT Announces Writers Residency Grants by American Theatre Editors

The grants have awarded funds to eight new musical theatre projects.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:03PM

Could It Happen Here? How U.S. and U.K. Plays Are Staging Antisemitism’s Resurgence by American Theatre Editors

Over the past year, no fewer than 10 shows on both sides of the Atlantic have addressed the historical rise of Nazism and/or the troubling resurfacing of antisemitism.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:50PM

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