TheFrontOffice Foundation Launches Grant for Mid-Career Women Directors
The $25,000 award is intended both to honor a deserving artist and to keep a spotlight on persistent gender-based inequity in the field.
Hedgepig Releases 3rd Annual Expand the Canon List of Classics by Women
The company has uncovered 9 overlooked but eminently producible plays by women through history, from Aphra Behn to Wakako Yamauchi.
Zharia O’Neal Is Sound Theatre’s First William S. Yellow Robe Playwright
O’Neal will receive a $10,000 stipend, travel and housing reimbursement, and will teach a playwriting course and develop a comedy about black women in reality television; Finalists of the residency will receive honaria
Christina Anderson Named 2022 Recipient of Annual Horton Foote Prize
Anderson will receive the $50,000 award for her play ‘the ripple, the wave that carried me home’ at an event on Oct. 24.
Octavio Solis, in the Company of His Characters
The playwright talks with director Chi-wang Yang about his new play ‘Scene With Cranes,’ about making theatre in a bar, and about the unacknowledged grief of the world.
Mary Kathryn Nagle Is First KCRep American Crossroads Resident Playwright
An attorney on the frontline of Native American rights, and the playwright of ‘Sovereignty’ and ‘Manahatta,’ Nagle will create a work inspired by stories of the region.
Robert Kalfin, Off-Broadway Pioneer, Made a Home for Big Risks
The founder of Chelsea Theater Center was a force from the 1960s onward, doing plays no one else would do and encouraging similar boldness in his colleagues.
Bob Kalfin and Me: A Friendship Over Half a Century
From our first meeting, he opened me up to a panorama of possibilities, not only in the theatre but in myself.
Martyna Majok’s ‘Cost of Living,’ in This Economy?
With a Broadway debut about disabled folks and their caretakers, the playwright of ‘Sanctuary City’ and ‘Ironbound’ is again writing at the margins.
‘All of Me’: A Rom-Com That Represents, and Not Just Onstage
A new play at Barrington Stage Company, about a class-riven romance among 2 wheelchair and text-to-speech users, also has plenty of disabled talent backstage.
