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Onstage This Week: Nov. 3-10

Political and cultural conflicts, plus a dash of camp (two vintage Charles Busch revivals!), ignite this week’s offerings on stages across America.

To celebrate its 30th anniversary season, the NY-based company has commissioned plays about, and developed in, specific neighborhoods.

From Steppenwolf to USC drama school, recent staff changes abound.

Intending to serve as interim artistic director, McFadden instead oversaw five years of growth for the company, including the building of a new home.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author talks about unsettling his audience and repainting the Muslim image in the West.

Brass tacks and emotional outbursts highlight this week on the nation’s theatre podcasts.

A former SEIU organizer takes the helm of the stage union’s Western region at a potentially dramatic juncture.

Elements Theatre Company, a stage troupe within a Benedictine Christian community, forgoes religious pageantry for a mix of classics and new plays.

The current managing director of the Contemporary American Theatre Festival will bring his new-play passion to Pittsburgh.

The founder of the Off-Off-Broadway mainstay leaves as the theatre plans a move into a new three-theatre complex.