The MFA Squeeze: Maintaining Excellence in a Changing Landscape
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.
Yearly Archives: 2023
6th Annual Sin Muros Festival Announces Lineup
The Houston festival showcases Latinx playwrights and stories.
Playwrights’ Center Names McKnight Awardees
Aya Ogawa is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission, while Gethsemane Herron and Rachel Jendrzejewski are the new McKnight Fellows.
Theater Mu to Host AAPI Generations Conference
The weekend’s lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
Dale R. Shields, Pearl Cleage, Black Rep of Kansas City Win Robeson Awards
After a COVID hiatus, the award recognizing art and social impact will give be given to 3 recipients for the years 2021-2023.
Boston Court Pasadena Announces Festival Lineup
The event will feature plays by Tira Palmquist, Austin Owens Kelly, and Vasanti Saxena.
Iraisa Ann Reilly, Justin Santory Receive Latinx Playwrights Circle Mentorship
Reilly and Santory will receive both private and public readings of their work.
Itamar Moses: Every Day He Writes the Book
A playwright who finds writing musicals both impossible and irresistible, he has a new adaptation of ‘An American Tail’ opening at Children’s Theatre Company.
At Dallas Theater Center, Layoffs and Cutbacks and Cancellations
The theatre says they’ll announce a 2023-24 season soon, though summer programming is off and the resident acting company will go back to show-to-show hiring.
TCG Launches Theatre for Activism Series With Call for Care
Rest Up, the first in a series of planned gatherings in a national initiative to advance a more equitable theatre ecology, will be held April 27-28.