New ‘Wild Dreamer’ Retreat and Award to Recognize Female Playwrights
Program includes a retreat in upstate New York and an award to a female playwright from the Great Plains Theatre Conference.
Category Archives: Plains
Dispatches from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
New Guthrie Season Includes Mix of Comedy, Tragedy and Musicals
The season, partly selected by incoming artistic director Joseph Haj, is big on revivals, as well as area premieres of David Greig’s ‘The Events’ and Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced.’
Playwrights Center Announces Jerome and McKnight Fellows
Carson Kreitzer, Andrew Rosendorf and Keliher Walsh among recipients of fellowships for emerging and Minnesota-based playwrights.
Unicorn Theatre’s New Season to Include Two World Premieres
The Kansas City theatre season will include a world premiere from William Missouri Downs, an NNPN rolling world premiere by Hilary Bettis and ‘Heathers the Musical.’
Donald Margulies, Brooklyn Boy, Feted in William Inge’s Kansas Hometown
The playwright was this year’s honoree at the annual festival in Independence, which featured a generous sampling of his work, and Jen Silverman was the New Voices Award winner.
Theater Latté Da Announces Musicals for New Work Series
New-musical series presents works by Michael Elyanow, Harrison David Rivers and Peter Duchan.
Sarah Rasmussen Is Jungle Theater’s New Artistic Director
The South Dakota native will succeed founder Bain Boehlke beginning this summer.
Sarah Bellamy Named 2015 Bush Fellow
The co-artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company was one of 23 regional leaders awarded the $100,000 fellowship.
Why Rick Dildine Left Shakespeare & Company So Quickly
He’s going back to his previous job at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, he says, because it’s more artistic than administrative.
Rick Dildine Returning to St. Louis After Short Stint at Shakespeare & Company
After just over six months as head of the Massachusetts theatre, Dildine will return to Shakespeare Festival St. Louis with a slightly different title.
