
The Rising Tide of ‘An Ocean in My Bones’
Earlier this month, Terrence Spivey’s play about the last slave ship, Clotilda, had its premiere in the Alabama community its survivors built.
Earlier this month, Terrence Spivey’s play about the last slave ship, Clotilda, had its premiere in the Alabama community its survivors built.
How one historically white theatre company in Virginia has invested in reaching new audiences, and fostering writers, of color.
Stephen McKinley Henderson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ntozake Shange will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwright’s Sidewalk, and A.R.T./New York will be recognized for its Body of Work.
Stori Ayers and Charly Evon Simpson resigned in solidarity with a performer whose assault they feel was mishandled. That performer says the problem is bigger than a single incident.
From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.
Both artists will use the award, intended to highlight veteran artists no longer in the limelight, to continue writing.
His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, ‘Dark Disabled Stories,’ is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disabled people.
Proposed drag bans aren’t really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren’t just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods—they’re also attacking an art and a form of free expression.
Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.
With Eugene Lee, Trinity Rep’s founder leader built a true resident theatre and forged a distinct and visceral aesthetic.