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.
‘My Tone Is Indigenous’: Larissa FastHorse on Native Comedy and Storytelling
Her ‘Thanskgiving Play’ is the first play by a Native woman playwright on Broadway, but you can leave your virtue-signaling and tragedy-porn expectations at the door.
Actors’ Equity, Broadway League Reach Touring Agreement
The agreement averts a threatened strike by Equity members.
Molly Smith Is Ready to Leave the Arena
Arena Stage’s artistic director looks back on a quarter century of programming for the unique community that comprises the nation’s capital.
Snehal Desai Is Named Next CTG Artistic Director
Filling a major vacancy at the helm of the three-theatre L.A. company, Desai comes to the job after 7 years leading East West Players.
Benjamin Benne, Mallory Jane Weiss Win Portland Stage Clauder Competition
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage’s upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne’s ‘Manning’ will get a full mainstage production.
AD Kate LoConti Alcocer to Step Down From Irish Classical Theatre
LoConti Alcocer will transition to the newly-created role of ICTC advisory director next season.
Alex Alpharaoh, Lisa Sanaye Dring Receive Antaeus NEXT Commissions
The commissions come with financial, dramaturgical, and logistical support for the development of original, full-length works.
Erica Ezold to Become People’s Light Managing Director
The theatre’s director of finance and operations will step into the leadership role on May 1.
