‘The Chinese Lady’ and the Long Road Home
How Lloyd Suh’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ made it through 2 years of pandemic, protest, and anti-Asian hate to emerge as the nation’s most-produced and possibly most essential play.
Yearly Archives: 2022
A Second Chance for ‘Coal Country’
The show felt very special in 2020, but it means even more now, colored by the loss of the past 2 years.
A Little Understanding for the Understudies
The work of understudies, standbys, and swings is always exhausting and show-saving, but it took a pandemic to get most audiences and even the industry to recognize their value.
Can We Talk? Why I Put ‘America in One Room’
A political science experiment to gather diverse Americans inspired a stage version at Florida Studio Theatre, which also brought people together to reflect on their similarities and differences.
Lock Up Tha Theatre
An excerpt from a new collection of micro-plays.
TCG Launches THRIVE! Uplifting Theatres of Color Initiative
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation will provide $1.6 million in support for the initiative.
In the Play Room With Andrei Belgrader
Though shy and reserved himself, he pushed his actors beyond self-consciousness to imaginative extremes and genuine discovery.
Broadway Licensing Announces Co-Commissioning Program
The company will partner with at least 3 theatres per year to develop new works.
Milwaukee Rep Founder Mary John Dies at 96
A producer on and Off-Broadway, she founded Drama Inc., now Milwaukee Rep, in 1954.
TCG Opens 2022 Rising Leaders of Color Applications
The 2022-23 program will assemble a cohort of early-career BIPOC leaders from Pittsburgh, the site of TCG’s next conference.
