Are We Selling Experiences or Serving Communities?
In excerpts from their new book, Anthony S. Rhine and Jay Pension answer important questions about audience engagement practices in nonprofit arts.
Shereen Ahmed, No ‘Ordinary’ Artist
The emerging talent trades in Covent Garden for Northern Ireland with a turn in ‘A Man of No Importance’ and reflects on a few stepping stones in community theatre along the way.
En Garde Arts Launches Joan D. Firestone Commissioning Fund
The award will recognize a mid-career theatre artist engaged in social change through the arts with an unrestricted $18,000 prize.
Daniel Elihu Kramer Will Step Down as CTC’s Producing Artistic Director
After seven seasons, Kramer will be succeeded by Tara Franklin and James Barry as co-producing artistic directors.
CPH Managing Director Collette A. Laisure Ends Tenure
After joining the organization in 2021, Laisure became the first woman and person of color to hold the managing director position in CPH’s 107-year history.
What Is a Non-Binary Play?
Playwright Jonathan Alexandratos reflects on the plethora of joys, pains, ownerships, references, anxieties, comforts, languages, forms, and more to be found in non-binary plays.
TDF’s Design-Focused Sharaff Awards Return for In-Person Fête
This year’s honorees include costume designers Fred Voelpel and Dede Ayite, scenic designer Eugene Lee, and visual artist Michael Curry.
Race, Mystery, RBG, Opera: I’ve Got a Little List
From a Conan Doyle-inspired inquiry to an Emmett Till trilogy, from a Baroque opera to an Alaskan Tlingit journey, here are some shows I’d put on my hypothetical theatre calendar.
This Month in Theatre History
October recalls the extraordinary career of a 19th-century performer, the founding of both an Indianapolis institution and a West Coast bilingual theatre project, as well as the premieres of 2 very different works by queer Latinas on the East Coast.
Les Waters: Theatre Spaces and Thin Places
In excerpts from a new book, the British-born director talks about childhood mysteries, the theatre buildings he’s worked in, and his fascination with erasure and contradictions.
