Meghan Pressman: In With the New
The first woman to manage the $55 million Center Theatre Group offers tips on how to raise money for innovation.
Stories by Diep Tran
Diep Tran is a former senior editor of American Theatre. She received her degree in arts journalism at Syracuse University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time Out New York, Backstage, Salon, and TDF Stages. Tran read Sarah Kane’s Blasted when she was 20, and that hooked her onto theatre. Follow her on Twitter at @diepthought or visit her website at www.dieptran.com.
Fefu’s Friends, Old and New
Artists behind the 1977 premiere of María Irene Fornés’s groundbreaking play compare notes with artists from a new revival.
What I’ve Learned in the Last Decade as a Journalist
Also, a goodbye to my editorial home.
In ‘For Colored Girls….’, Adrienne C. Moore Has Come Full Circle
The ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actress, who once used a Ntozake Shange monologue as her go-to audition piece, is now starring in the Public Theater revival.
Studies Show Big Impact of Small Theatres in NY, Chicago
Among their findings: that New York’s small theatres and Chicago’s storefronts are billion-dollar economic drivers as well as cultural hotbeds.
Why Is Susan Lieu Self-Funding a 10-City Tour?
In telling the story of her mother, who died under a careless plastic surgeon’s knife, she hopes to illuminate both grief and injustice.
Conrad Ricamora Is Ready to Be a Leading Man
Why is he doing ‘Soft Power’ in New York while filming ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ in Los Angeles? Because he finally gets to play the hero.
5 Off-Off-Broadway Companies Find a Home at Midtown’s Theatre Row
The new Kitchen Sink Residency will give 2 years of support and space for companies to create new work, culminating in full productions.
‘Between the World and Me,’ Onstage at the Apollo
The longtime Harlem institution is remounting its adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book and taking it on tour.
Regina Victor: Critiquing With Love
Armed with the idea that truth-telling and empathy don’t have to be mutually exclusive, they founded Rescripted, an independent Chicago theatre publication.
