Evan Yionoulis Named Director of Drama at Juilliard
An experienced director and longtime professor at Yale School of Drama, she succeeds the late Jim Houghton at the prestigious school.
Category Archives: Education
Frederick Kennedy Wins 2018 Burry Fredrik Design Fellowship
Kennedy will receive a cash prize and the opportunity to design at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Roundabout Trains the Next Generation of Backstage Workers
The Theatrical Workforce Development Program readies young people to take on jobs backstage and in the booth.
Surprised That ‘Never Again’ Leaders Are Theatre Kids? I’m Not
Many of these Florida teen activists found their voice and their sense of community onstage.
The Children of ‘Angels’
A generation of playwrights reflects on a play that still sets the bar high for their work.
Why I Stopped Teaching ‘Angels’ to Undergrads
It’s not just all the arduous unpacking: AIDS, Reagan, the closet, Mormons. It’s also that the play’s millennial dread seems puzzling to post-millennials.
Is ‘Angels in America’ Tough to Teach? Maybe, But We’re Here to Learn
College students question an editorial in which a university professor lamented the hurdles of teaching Kushner’s gay fantasia.
Robert Lepage and Matías Umpierrez: The Language of Theatre
Two interdisciplinary artists, paired for a Rolex mentorship, had a cross-generational exchange that spanned the globe and many cultures and languages.
Offscript: The Director’s Path
In this podcast episode, recorded live at the Robert Moss Theater, directors Anne Kauffman, Rachel Chavkin, Anne Bogart, and Liesl Tommy discusses the hows and whys of directing.
Training With a Difference
As the nation grows more diverse, theatre education needs to become less Eurocentric and more inclusive.
