Freya Catrin Smith, Jack Williams Win 2023 Fred Ebb Award
The songwriting duo’s musical ‘Ride’ will have its American premiere at the Old Globe next year.
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Steven Levenson to Discuss New Collection of Plays
The ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ writer will join Jill Rafson in conversation on YouTube to talk about the new TCG Books release ‘If I Forget and Other Plays.’
Larry Mabrey Named Managing Director of Orlando Shakes
Managing director Douglas Love-Ramos left the Florida company last July.
Unrestricted Giving, Unlimited Possibilities
What can blossom when funders put their trust in BIPOC-led institutions like Silk Road Rising, Pangea World Theater, and Penumbra Theatre.
Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte to Receive 2024 Thalia Prize
Her specialties have been performance theory, European theatre and cultural history, transformative aesthetics, and performances of Greek tragedies since 1800.
Jarrett King Receives Katherine Owens/Undermain Fund for New Work Grant
The new works grant is named in honor of founding artistic director Katherine Owens.
Frank Chin, Migdalia Cruz Receive Legacy Playwright Awards
The 2 writers were honored at last week’s Dramatists Guild Foundation gala.
Be Open, Let Go: What I Learned From The 24 Hour Plays
Why a very busy TV writer has regularly joined a group of theatre artists who pull all-nighters to create plays from scratch.
‘Thinking’ Small and Local
Keen Company’s roving production of Joan Didion’s mourning memoir makes a good fit for Long Wharf’s itinerant programming agenda.
Robert Brustein Raised the Bar for Us All
The founder of Yale Rep and ART had intellect, idealism, and indignation to spare, and he put it all in service of the theatre he wanted to see in the world.
