A Homecoming to ‘Knoxville’
A new musical based on Agee’s ‘Death in the Family’ from Ahrens, Flaherty, and Galati debuts at Florida’s Asolo Rep, almost exactly 2 years after COVID shut it down.
Category Archives: South Atlantic
Coverage of theatres in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
Jason Najjoum Named Managing Director of Imagination Stage
The theatre also announced that Triza Cox will serve as the associate artistic director its Theatre for Change program.
Michael Donald Edwards, Linda DiGabriele Announce Joint Departure From Asolo Rep
After 18 and 50 years respectively at the helm of Asolo Rep, the theatre’s producing artistic director and managing director will step down in June of 2023.
The Enduring, Overlooked Wisdom of ‘Nathan the Wise’
Far from simply preaching tolerance among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, this 18th-century comic fable insists on true inclusion and fellowship.
Keep Masks and Vax Checks, Say Most D.C. Theatregoers
53 percent of theatregoers are not in favor of ending the mask requirement on April 30, and 77 percent are very negative about eliminating the vaccination requirement.
Offscript: Eliana Pipes’s 3-Theatre ‘Dream Hou$e’
The editors speak to the playwright of ‘Dream Hou$e,’ a new play about gentrification, sisterhood, and reality TV, now onstage at Long Wharf Theatre.
New-Play Program ‘A Different Myth’ Seeks Black Writers
The new program from Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective and the American Myth Center will commission plays about Black life.
How Theatres Are Facing the Omicron Wave
No, it’s not March 2020 all over again, but the latest COVID-19 variant has theatres struggling with some familiar dilemmas of safety and scheduling.
Theater J Launches Canon-Expanding New-Play Program
The program will commission 7 Jewish playwrights of color in an effort to ‘correct and broaden’ conceptions of Jewishness onstage.
Dad’s Garage Names Tim Stoltenberg Their New Artistic Director
A former ensemble member who guided the troupe through the pandemic after Jon Carr’s departure, he’ll move from interim to permanent leader.
