Oregon Shakespeare Festival Launches New Fellowship for Theatre Leaders
With the new Paul Nicholson Arts Management Fellowship, OSF strives to get more diverse leaders into the pipeline.
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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.
6 Out-of-the-Book Adaptations of ‘Into the Woods’
From little black dresses to jeans, bicycles to balloons, six memorable reinventions of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” from 2014 (not counting the movie).
Samuel D. Hunter on Creating a Modern ‘Our Town’
The MacArthur genius grantee talks about his new play ‘Pocatello’ at Playwrights Horizons, and why the Olive Garden makes a great metaphor for family and community.
Paying Playwrights More Than Play Money
Writers can’t live on commissions and royalties alone, so some theatres are adjusting the way they compensate them. Are these gestures enough to turn the tide?
Vox Lumiere Creates a Steampunk 'Phantom of the Opera'
For their version of “Phantom of the Opera,” Vox Lumiere combined steampunk and silent film, and no white mask.
We Three Puppet Holiday Shows
Paul Mesner Puppets cooks up one show each for Jewish, Christian and secular holiday observances.
Playwrights Horizons Launches Resident Company Program
Clubbed Thumb is the first beneficiary of Playwrights’s new initiative, which comes with free office, rehearsal and performance space.
Chicago Shakes Gets President's Award for Its Teen Theatre Program
CPS Shakespeare!, which puts underserved high schoolers into fully staged productions on the Chicago Shakes stage, is recognized for its unique impact.
Inside the Exploded Piano of Fiasco Theater's 'Into the Woods'
In a new reimagining of Lapine and Sondheim’s fairy-tale musical, 11 actors play all the roles and all the instruments—and the set itself is an instrument.
'Tamburlaine': The Newest Portrait in John Douglas Thompson's Gallery of Great Men
A seldom-produced Elizabethan epic storms a Brooklyn stage, and its lead actor John Douglas Thompson reflects on the value of Marlowe and the universality of the classic roles.
