Angela Lee Gieras Named Exec Director of Shakespeare Theatre Co.
A seasoned expert in nonprofit management, she’ll leave the same post at Kansas City Rep to co-lead the D.C. theatre alongside artistic director Simon Godwin.
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Quintessence Theatre Group Purchases Historic Sedgwick Theater
The company hopes to finish renovations of the Art Deco venue by 2028, exactly 100 years after its first opening.
Under the Radar Announces 2025 Festival, Adds 2 Leaders
New York’s premier international and experimental festival sticks with the city-wide multi-venue approach as Meropi Peponides and Kaneza Schaal join the leadership team.
Signature Theatre Names Beth Whitaker Interim Artistic Director
Whitaker will serve in the 2024-25 season while Signature searches for a successor to Paige Evans.
Adrian Budhu Named Managing Director of Pioneer Theatre Company
A seasoned arts leader, including at TCG, he joins artistic director Karen Azenberg as co-leader after a tumultuous period for the Salt Lake City theatre.
5 Things Theatre Criticism Taught Me About Playwriting
Our managing editor reflects on how the skills she picked up doing arts journalism inform her approach to storytelling in another medium.
Nagle Jackson: Calm at the Center of the Storm
The versatile actor-director-playwright-translator staged work all over the U.S. and the world.
The Subtext: Benjamin Benne’s Sound and Vision
This month Brian talks to the writer of ‘Alma’ and ‘In His Hands’ about narration, inspiration, family ties, and Julio Cortázar.
Soho Rep Takes a Sharp Turn Toward New Horizons
The downtown new-play mainstay will leave lower Manhattan to produce at the midtown theatre, in a limited but possibly transformative partnership.
Equal Accessibility for Deaf and Hearing Audiences? It’s Possible!
How a new staging of ‘Cinderella’ is bringing Deaf/hearing theatre out of the ‘shadows.’
