TEDxBroadway Mulls the Future of Theatre in an Age of Screens
Ayad Akhtar and Emily Simoness speak, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul sing, about the future of theatre at the fourth annual TEDxBroadway.
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Offscript: The Tiers and Tears Edition
The L.A. 99-Seat Theatre wars get a full airing with special guest Isaac Butler, and the editors have some recommendations.
Cincinnati Shakespeare Season an Ensemble-Driven Slate of History, Romance
In kicking off the Bard’s ‘Henry VI’ trilogy and closing with a Caesarian double bill, the troupe puts its ensemble talent front and center.
Love, Sex, Death and Classical Music Overlap in ‘Fugue’
Tommy Smith’s new play at the Echo Theater Company moves along 3 tracks as it follows 3 great classical musicians and their chaotic love lives.
Jackie Sibblies Drury Among Winners of Yale’s Windham-Campbell Prize
The college’s Beinecke Library is proud to present an award to the Brooklyn-based playwright, one of three dramatists given the prestigious $150,000 prize.
Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks Sets Dates at the Wild Project
The troupe’s 20th festival plans stagings of new plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jaclyn Backhaus.
Heavy-Hitting ‘Hammer Trilogy’ Envisioned as an American King Arthur Myth
Fantasy and mythology cross-breed with early American history in Nathan Allen’s ambitious three-play series, now at last running in repertory.
Get Me Rewrite: The Colorado New Play Summit Is a Developing Story
Expanding its offerings to a second week, the Denver Center’s annual new-play meeting gives featured writers more time to get their plays in shape—many of them for the mainstage.
Halcyon Theatre Announces a Season of Otherworldly Plays by Women
The small Chicago theatre, newly affiliated with Actors Equity, plans an ambitious slate of new plays by Madhuri Shekar, Charise Castro Smith and Callie Kimball.
Onstage This Week: Feb. 23-Mar. 2
New spins on old chestnuts, from the Greeks to the French golden age, mingle with contemporary tragedies, tete-a-tetes and a few tunes.
