World Premiere Wisconsin: A Bold Idea, Locally Brewed
This 4-month state-wide celebration of theatrical abundance is already strengthening bonds among artists and audiences, all while keeping the focus on new writing.
Category Archives: On the Scene
The Devil Is Throwing a Party, and Phones Are Welcome
For Jennifer Chang’s world-premiere ‘The Devil Is a Lie,’ Quantum Theatre occupies a Pittsburgh landmark associated with one of its most notorious industrialists.
The Understudy Opens a New Chapter for Chicago Bookstores
The new bookstore and café aims to fill a niche for theatre-loving readers, book-loving stage folks, and anyone else who’s been missing a sense of community.
Time and Space at the Colorado New Play Summit
Even on a smaller scale, this year’s Summit offered 4 playwrights the invaluable chance to write questions and stage the answers.
Roe Is Dead in Texas, But ‘Roe’ Lives in 2 New Stagings There
Lisa Loomer’s play about the historic decision arrives at 2 theatres in a state that’s once again on the front lines of the reproductive rights battle.
‘Noura’ in Dearborn and the Art of Homeland-Making
Detroit Public Theatre’s production of Heather Raffo’s thorny drama about Chaldean Iraqi immigrants showed what true regional theatre can—and should—do.
‘Theater of the Mind,’ Sure, But How About a Theatre Accessible for All Bodies?
More than just an immersive show about the senses, the new David Byrne/Mala Gaonkar experience in Denver has been built for folks of all sensory abilities.
Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab: Not a Eulogy But a Celebration
For 25 years, this hugely influential program welcomed directors from all over the world to compare work and share practices. Is it really over?
Stage Frights: Theatre Ghost Stories, Vol. 7
Footsteps on the roof, mischief-making specters, self-opening doors, and more fill our annual Halloween anthology of tales from haunted theatres.
A New-Play Fest Is Born in Greenville, S.C.
The latest entry in the new-play festival game, staged in August across 5 venues in an arts-centric town, had impressive local buy-in and enthusiastic full houses.
