Arena Stage Announces Partnership With Universities
The reimagining of Playwrights’ Arena will allow six students or alumni to work directly with Arena Stage dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke.
Coverage of theatres in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
The reimagining of Playwrights’ Arena will allow six students or alumni to work directly with Arena Stage dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke.
The North Carolina company will present a mix of virtual and socially distant theatre.
The playwright will develop a new play with students of Florida’s Hillsborough Community College.
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University is researching safety protocols that could help Atlanta theatres eventually reopen.
In response to demands for change, the company will pay playwrights during rehearsal, eliminate punishing ’10 out of 12′ tech weeks, and strive for greater pay equity.
Though no dates are set, the D.C. company’s season is planning to end with the pre-Broadway run of ‘A Strange Loop.’
The season will feature six productions and the launch of a new streaming platform.
Six students will receive $2,000 to support studies in the performing arts and arts management.
Nicholas will replace interim executive and artistic director Thom Seymour Jr.
American Shakespeare Center and Berkshire Theatre Group will soon open full-scale productions, but only one has Actors’ Equity’s approval.