Sunam Ellis Wants to Hear Your Voice
In this episode, Woodzick talks with the Seattle-based creative about returning to acting, creating caring classrooms, and seeing the ‘whole picture’ as a director.
Victoria Podesta Named Chicago Dramatists’ Exec Director
A playwright and former chief communications officer, Podesta began her new role on Jan 1.
AT Education Monthly: Brown/Trinity Pause, Educator Roundtable, and Student Auditions
In this month’s newsletter, Allison checks in on Brown/Trinity Rep’s MFA programs and asks educators about students auditioning for professional roles.
Jennifer Haley’s ‘Froggy’: Cutscenes and In-Game Action
The author of ‘The Nether’ wrote her new play in graphic-novel form, and now it’s getting a multimedia staging at CenterREP.
New Audience Behavior Study Shows Promising Signs
More patrons are buying fewer tickets, new ticket buyers are a growing demographic, and other takeaways from a new report by JCA Performing Arts.
Garden Variety Grown From ‘Fifty Boxes of Earth’
A response to Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ Ankita Raturi’s world premiere play explores what it means to try to survive in a new place when those already there treat you as a monster.
Phillip Fazio Named Naples Players Artistic Director
He joins CEO and executive artistic director Bryce Alexander in leading the organization.
Repping Arkansas: Arkansas Rep Hires Steve Broadnax III as Artistic Director
The versatile director returns to Little Rock, joining executive director Will Trice and producing director Ken-Matt Martin to lead their hometown regional theatre into its next chapter.
Offscript: What Mfoniso Udofia and Awoye Timpo Find in ‘The Grove’
This month we speak to the playwright and director of a new play at the Huntington, and check in with NY Times critic at large Maya Phillips.
Lessons From Kosovo for Theatre in Times of Uncertainty
Theatre in Kosovo—state-sanctioned and safe during the Soviet era, scrappy in the war years—offers models both cautionary and instructive for U.S. theatres facing headwinds.
