2023 TCG Gala Celebrates Black Excellence and Literary Diversity
This year’s TCG Our Stories Gala, presented in honor of Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson Jackson, raised a record $300,000 for the organization.
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Mina Morita to Receive Mid-Career Director Grant from TheFrontOffice
The $25,000 grant aims to recognize a deserving artist and keep a spotlight on the field’s gender inequity.
Cripping Richard III: What Disabled Actors Bring to the Role
Shakespeare’s iconic villain has always been disabled, but increasingly the actors playing him—and the productions and adaptations they star in—reflect disability aesthetics and activism.
This Month in Theatre History
A playwright and abolitionist responsible for a variety of firsts, an international tour that changed acting in the West, and the birth of a feminist theatre collective with a unique approach to playmaking.
Grill & Chowder Win 2022 Relentless Award
The winners will receive $65,000 along with opportunities to have their musical developed at various theatrical institutions.
Before We Turn the Page: AT’s 2022 Reading List
Find a gift for a theatre person you know, or just treat yourself, to one of the books we covered, sampled, or published in 2022.
Making ‘Sensory Theatre’ for All Ages and All Senses
A new book from a founder of Oily Cart offers an insider’s guide to the world-building of inclusive, interactive theatre for young and disabled audiences.
What Does the Closure of ‘Ain’t No Mo’ Mean for the Future of Black Stories?
Jordan E. Cooper’s satire could have had more success if it had kept cultivating audiences as intentionally as it did throughout its early development.
Spectrum Theatre Ensemble’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Ethos
This Rhode Island company is both fostering new work by neurodiverse artists and creating new guidelines for the inclusion of neurodiverse audiences.
And Reverie Shall Restore Amends
Members of this emerging New England theatre company are finding joy and building trust in the wake of trauma.
