Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Checking in with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Prep, theatre programs in California, and the educators among our readership.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:13PMFriday, April 25, 2025
One of the nation's most influential musical theatre institutions, now in its 46th year, is on the opposite coast from Broadway.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:30PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Ahead of concerts at Steppenwolf and Ravinia, Kelli O’Hara reflects on her journey, artistry and breath work, and the “service” of performing.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:24PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
This month in Chicago, a rundown of theatre companies' anniversaries, a lament for Victory Gardens, and a celebration of disability representation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:30AMThursday, March 27, 2025
This month’s newsletter take another look at our latest education-centered print issue.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:02PMFriday, March 21, 2025
This month, Woodzick talks with Erin Rollman and Brian Colonna of Buntport Theater, a non-hierarchical collective in Denver known for imaginative, campy adaptations.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:12PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
The writers behind a feature on high school theatre inspiration and a production notebook for a new musical.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:33PMMonday, March 17, 2025
A TCG co-executive director reminds us in our Winter 2025 issue that even in the middle of winter, it's still possible to protest, organize, and cultivate a garden of hope for the future.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:36PMFriday, March 14, 2025
Our 2025 Winter issue launches during uncertain times—but they are precedented.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:19PMThursday, March 6, 2025
This month Brian talks with the award-winning playwright about how he went from technician to playwright, and how to find the real drama behind a true historical event.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:26PMMonday, March 3, 2025
A brief introduction to the Fornés playwriting method, with a condensed exercise adapted by Migdalia Cruz from María Irene Fornés's original lab at INTAR.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:01PMMonday, February 24, 2025
In this episode, Woodzick talks with the Seattle-based creative about returning to acting, creating caring classrooms, and seeing the 'whole picture' as a director.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:03AMFriday, February 7, 2025
This month Brian talks with playwright, director, and performer Aya Ogawa about “hacking away with a machete” toward a career and directing their own work.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:00PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
The commissioning program Generation Now emerged from a desire to diversify TYA, and may offer a model for more communicative collaboration across companies.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:33AMThis month, Gabriela reflects on what theatre can illuminate about the 'quiet art of survival,' and two busy artists share self-care practices and visions for 2025.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:06AMTuesday, January 14, 2025
This month, Woodzick talks with drag superstar Monét X Change about her solo Life be Lifin’, collaborating on music with BenDeLaCreme, sources of queer joy, and Broadway aspirations.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:32PMWednesday, January 8, 2025
This month Brian talks with the playwright, producer, Fire This Time Festival founder, and Apollo Theater director of new works about drama, balance, and Louisiana history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:16PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
This month spotlights a collaboration between the University of Tennessee and Clarence Brown Theatre and looks back at readers' favorite school productions of 2024.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:44PMTuesday, December 3, 2024
This month, Woodzick chats with multi-hyphenate filmmaker Vera Drew about cultivating joyful spaces for trans audiences through her DIY film 'The People’s Joker.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:50AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
This month, Gabriela explores multilingual and nonverbal storytelling, Jerald remembers Kris Vire and celebrates Sondheim, and two care consultants share ways to recharge this winter.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:36PMThe Latino Theater Company’s border-defying Encuentro, the fourth of its kind, gathered hundreds of Latine artists for productions, partnerships, and dialogues in multiple languages.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:29PMTuesday, November 5, 2024
This month Brian speaks with playwright about striving to write one play a year and drawing inspiration from various roles and identities.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:58AMFriday, November 1, 2024
In this month’s Christmas-Halloween mashup, Woodzick chats with two drag icons about their seventh annual holiday show, as well as Seattle-based playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard about h…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:24AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
This month, Gabriela describes visceral reactions to Chicago stages, Jerald highlights Steppenwolf, plus we get a Halloween preview from two local costume designers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:47PMMonday, October 28, 2024
Selina Fillinger’s popular farce about women taking control of the White House hits different this fall.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:05PMFriday, October 18, 2024
In this month's Offscript, we hear from three leaders who bring the world together through Shakespeare and new work. Plus, we learn about a new generative arts journalism fellowship.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:41PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Deaf and hearing artists are looking for the timeless rage in a new staging of Green Day's 'American Idiot,' a collaboration between Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:13PMFriday, October 4, 2024
This month Brian speaks with the Playwrights' Center core writer and co-artistic director of Minneapolis's Red Eye about chance encounters and her relationship to future thinking.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:50PMOn this episode we broke the news of which plays and playwrights will be the most produced this season. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and some most-produced playwrights on …
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:17PMMonday, September 30, 2024
This month we recap a fast-paced, eventful month and get to hear from visionaries Miranda González and Raquel Torre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:25PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
With apt new comedies programmed around election seasons, theatre companies have been complicating audience notions of the Latine vote and community.
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