Cleveland Play House Celebrates 100th Season with a Ken Ludwig World Premiere
Cleveland Play House will present a mix of contemporary and classic plays during its 2015–16 season
Dispatches from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio. and Wisconsin.
Cleveland Play House will present a mix of contemporary and classic plays during its 2015–16 season
The 2015-16 season at the Chicago theatre will include new plays about the Clintons by Lucas Hnath and about gun control by Sarah Gubbins.
The theatre’s 2015-16 season will feature both classic drama and a fourth world premiere by Bruce Graham.
The co-artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company was one of 23 regional leaders awarded the $100,000 fellowship.
Two major critics diss a new play about graffiti and hip-hop culture, igniting a debate about privilege, race and who gets to tell young people’s stories.
New plays by Jose Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw, Charise Castro Smith and Seth Bockley highlight the Chicago theatre’s next season.
Also announced for the Chicago theatre are ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ and Greta Oglesby, back as Aunt Esther in ‘Gem of the Ocean.’
The Milwaukee company’s 29th season also includes the world premiere of a stage adaptation of ‘Ella Enchanted’ and new works in the theatre’s First Steps series.
How do you adapt an underwater epic for the stage? Very carefully, say adaptors Ann Sonneville and Clint Sheffer.
Director Chuck Smith curates an August Wilson Celebration, with readings of all 10 of the Century Cycle plays and little-heard Wilson poetry.