Pacific Playwrights Festival Proves You Can Go Home Again
Among the offerings at South Coast Rep’s influential new work fest this year were plays inspired by its astonishing diversity.
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.
Border Crossing
Playwright/actor Raúl Castillo and director Jaime Castañeda create a site-specific piece.
Humana Festival 2015 Stretched Plays, and Audiences, to Their Breaking Point
A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre’s annual new-play gathering.
Humana 2015: Pig Iron Launches a Gay Space Opera
Inspired equally by ‘Star Wars’ and Charles Ludlam, the Philly troupe’s ‘I Promised Myself to Live Faster’ explores the intersection of tween sexual awakening and sci-fi fantasy.
WomenArts Points Up Gender Disparities in Bay Area Theatre
A new study finds that only around a quarter of plays produced in recent years were by women, with figures for directors and actors closer to parity.
Theatres Speak Out Against ‘Religious Freedom’ Bills (UPDATED)
Arkansas Repertory Theatre and Indiana Repertory Theatre released statements this week opposing RFRAs in their state.
Theatre Bay Area Magazine to Publish Online Exclusively
The bimonthly magazine plans to go online-only following the publication of its May/June issue.
‘Airline Highway’ Shows a Slice of NOLA Life
The design team of ‘Airline Highway’ by Lisa D’Amour, currently on Broadway, took a real-life New Orleans motel and put it onstage.
Randall Duk Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso Channel the Greats in ‘Then Came Each Actor’
The couple honor theatrical history with a retrospective of great actors—Eleanor Duse, Sarah Siddons, Edwin Booth—and their greatest roles.
Humana 2015: Charles Mee Toasts the Many Sides of Thomas Merton
The historian/playwright returns to Louisville with ‘The Glory of the World,’ a raucous tribute to the Trappist monk on what would be his 100th birthday.
