Playwrights’ Center Names McKnight Awardees
Aya Ogawa is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission, while Gethsemane Herron and Rachel Jendrzejewski are the new McKnight Fellows.
Category Archives: News
Get tomorrow’s theatre news before tonight’s intermission.
Theater Mu to Host AAPI Generations Conference
The weekend’s lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
Dale R. Shields, Pearl Cleage, Black Rep of Kansas City Win Robeson Awards
After a COVID hiatus, the award recognizing art and social impact will give be given to 3 recipients for the years 2021-2023.
Boston Court Pasadena Announces Festival Lineup
The event will feature plays by Tira Palmquist, Austin Owens Kelly, and Vasanti Saxena.
Iraisa Ann Reilly, Justin Santory Receive Latinx Playwrights Circle Mentorship
Reilly and Santory will receive both private and public readings of their work.
At Dallas Theater Center, Layoffs and Cutbacks and Cancellations
The theatre says they’ll announce a 2023-24 season soon, though summer programming is off and the resident acting company will go back to show-to-show hiring.
TCG Launches Theatre for Activism Series With Call for Care
Rest Up, the first in a series of planned gatherings in a national initiative to advance a more equitable theatre ecology, will be held April 27-28.
Producing A.D. Paul Pierce to Step Down From Springer Opera House
After 35 seasons at the helm of the landmark state theatre, Pierce will make way for new leadership.
6 Playwrights Receive 2023 Dramatists Guild Awards
This year’s recipients include Samuel D. Hunter, Sanaz Toossi, Caridad Svich, Jules Feiffer, Gretchen Cryer, and Nancy Ford.
Lindsay Smiling Named Wilma Co-Artistic Director
Co-artistic director James Ijames will depart after this season.
