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The weekend’s lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
The weekend’s lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
The event will feature plays by Tira Palmquist, Austin Owens Kelly, and Vasanti Saxena.
Yasmina Reza’s popular play makes a belated Off-Broadway debut in a kinetic new production by Theatre Breaking Through Barriers.
After 35 seasons at the helm of the landmark state theatre, Pierce will make way for new leadership.
This year’s recipients include Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage’s upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne’s ‘Manning’ will get a full mainstage production.
LoConti Alcocer will transition to the newly-created role of ICTC advisory director next season.
The commissions come with financial, dramaturgical, and logistical support for the development of original, full-length works.
The theatre’s director of finance and operations will step into the leadership role on May 1.
The program is currently accepting applications from Chicagoland theatre artists of color, two of whom will receive grants of $10,000.