Kimberly E. Douglas Named Woolly Mammoth Managing Director
The hire makes Woolly Mammoth one of few major U.S. theatres to be led by two women of color, as D.C. native Douglas joins artistic director Maria Manuela Goyanes.
Yearly Archives: 2023
Macy Schmidt: What Broadway’s Future Sounds Like
Taking the baton into her own hands, the busy orchestrator founded Broadway Sinfonietta not only for her but for other women of color often denied a seat in the orchestra.
Rapid Eye Repertory Announces Season of AI-Authored Plays
A groundbreaking new effort promises to combine generated text with live performance.
The Understudy Opens a New Chapter for Chicago Bookstores
The new bookstore and café aims to fill a niche for theatre-loving readers, book-loving stage folks, and anyone else who’s been missing a sense of community.
Robert Falls: Letting Go of the Goodman
After stepping down from the helm of the Chicago theatre he ran for 36 years, he’s directing—what else?—Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard.’
Mia Chung, Emma Wippermann Win 2023 Whiting Awards for Drama
The dramatists will present a reading with the other 2023 award winners at the Center for Fiction on March 30.
PlayPenn Announces New Initiatives for Playwrights
The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn and a new digital speaker series are designed to help serve even more writers this year.
Theatrical Mustang: For Taylor Adams, All Theatre Is Drag
The Omaha-based director talks about theatre’s collective brain, doing queer art on Catholic campuses, and how to break through the gender binary in casting.
Dancing Toward Change
With her troupe MorDance, Morgan McEwen aims to treat dancers fairly and change the stories ballet tells, both on- and offstage.
Are You Even Here? Or Are You Just Represented?
2 artists who’ve explored the ways city politics are like theatre wonder: What might theatre learn from city politics?