Category Archives: On the Scene

Pulled in All Directions, Especially New Ones, by New York’s January Festivals

In a week of showgoing, I enjoyed reconnecting with my performing-arts-presenter peers, but also searched for points of entry for the uninitiated.

Performance installations, dance performances, an “algorithmic concert”—January festivals presented works that defied categorization.

The 24 Hour Company continues to bring theatre makers around the world together to create short plays in a concise time frame.

Site-specific theatre festivals from La Jolla Playhouse and En Garde Arts make audiences work for their theatre—and it’s worth it.

The National Alliance for Musical Theater’s annual New York festival is a marketplace of new musicals in development.

The Minnesota company builds community around dramatists with its annual 10-day festival devoted to developing new work.

The annual festival takes over the ‘City of Neighborhoods’ with new work and new forms.

Straight realism, magic realism, even ‘sausage’ realism were on offer at the latest new-play event staged by the Latino/a Theatre Commons.

Over two weekends, writers at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival get two passes at their work, and their needs are as different as their plays.

Sisters are doing it for themselves in the city of brotherly love with a new women’s theatre festival.