Onstage This Week: Double-Vision Edition
We’re seeing double (and triple)! 3 popular plays—‘Doll’s House Part 2,’ ‘The Wolves,’ and ‘Men on Boats’—are running concurrently this month across the U.S.
UCLA Names Paula Vogel Playwright-in-Residence
Vogel will serve as the school’s inaugural Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Playwright-in-Residence for the 2018-19 academic year.
Jacob G. Padrón Named Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre
The producer will start his leadership post at the Connecticut theatre in early 2019.
Lost and Found With Hansol Jung
With plays like ‘Wild Goose Dreams’ and ‘Cardboard Piano,’ the Korean writer is making a splash on American stages with stories of displacement and hope.
Northern Stage Names Irene Green Managing Director
Green has been promoted from the role of associate managing director.
Fornés and the Magic in the Room
The free writing she taught us may have opened us up, but she also subtly framed and shaped our sense of theatrical form.
People’s Light Leads Winners at 2018 Barrymore Awards
The annual awards ceremony celebrating the Philadelphia theatre community was held on Monday.
Artistic Director Joanie Schultz Resigns From WaterTower Theatre
Hired by the Texas theatre just 2 years ago, Schultz cites ‘structural issues’ as the reason for her departure.
Jefferson Mays Is Doing ‘A Christmas Carol,’ By Himself
The Tony-winning actor promises his version of Charles Dickens’s classic will not be so jolly, because of income inequality.
She Wasn’t Just Anybody Who Sang a Black Girl’s Song
Ntozake Shange brought her fearless poetry out of the basements and cafes into the theatre and reached the world.
