Best of the Web: Reactions to Our Top 10 Most-Produced Plays
Where are the ladies? and other reactions from the Internet about our Top 10 Most-Produced Play list.
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The Old Globe Announces Its 2015 Summer Season
Offerings include plays helmed by Darko Tresnjak, Rebecca Taichman and Scott Ellis.
Robert Serrell Promoted to Executive Director at Barrow Group
Robert Serrell has been promoted to executive director of the Barrow Group Theatre Company.
Balagan Theater in Seattle Closes
The Seattle-based theatre company, which specialized in new musicals, has been dissolved by its board.
The Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of 2014-15 (Whose Name Is Not Shakespeare)
Who is the most-produced playwright in America? We’ll give you a hint: his last play was very Chekhov-ian.
The Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2014–15 Season
A complete rundown of this year’s Top 10 most-produced plays, including fun facts and a slide show of various productions.
Caption Contest: Fish Tank Edition (October 2014)
Caption this image and win a free copy of “Angels in America,” signed by Tony Kushner!
The Jungle Theater, Woolly Mammoth and More Announce Staffing Changes
Bain Boehkle is stepping down as artistic director of the Jungle Theater. That plus new hires and staff transitions at various theatres nationwide.
National Medals of the Arts, New Dramatists Playwrights and More Awards
The Public Theatre in Lewiston Maine is named “best theatre in Maine”; Kimber Lee is the Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage in Connecticut; and more awards.
Wolves, Fairy Tales, and Bullies in ‘In the Forest, She Grew Fangs’
Stephen Spotswood throws a modern twist in ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ with ‘In the Forest, She Grew Fangs’ at defunkt theatre.
