The Red Stuff: A Guide to Letting It Bleed Onstage
Jennifer McClure’s new book provides a prop master’s guide to blood effects, from design to clean-up and every sanguinary step in between.
This Month in Theatre History
August spotlights Black theatrical trailblazers, a theatre company that conquered all media, and a big theatre for little folks in the Lone Star state.
An Audition Power Shift: Princeton Tries On a New Approach
‘Try On Theater Days’ aims to upend the often exclusionary practice of college theatre auditions by allowing students and faculty to mutually assess their fit with each other and the programming.
Disability Futures Fellows Announces 2022 Cohort
Among the 20 members of this year’s class of artists and leaders are 8 with links to theatre and/or public performance.
Mack Brown Is Roundabout’s New Directing Fellow
The New York theatre also announced the 11 directors who will be part of their 2022-23 Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group.
Theatre Heaven: A Place a Lot Like Festival d’Avignon
Among the usual outsized quantity of productions at this year’s fest was a strong and meaningful showing of work by Middle Eastern artists.
Jamila Ponton Bragg, Cynthia L. Dorsey Named 2022 Prince Fellows
Created by Hal Prince to encourage new generations of creative producers, the fellowship comes with a stipend and a budget to develop a new theatrical production.
Education Theatre Association Names 15 Award Winners
11 individuals and 4 schools are being recognized by EdTA for their advocacy efforts and achievements in theatre education.
Jason Alexander Can’t ‘Forget’ the Theatre
Now directing the L.A. premiere of Steven Levenson’s Jewish American family drama ‘If I Forget,’ Alexander holds forth about identity, history, and what he learned from Jerome Robbins.
Funny Girls, Money Men: The Complications of Jewishness on Broadway
Using ‘Funny Girl’ and ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ as jumping-off points, 2 theatremakers tackle the often cross-cutting challenges of Jewish representation, and explore why casting alone can’t save problematic material.
