Tony Nominators: You Missed a Step in Ignoring ‘Dancin’’
The show’s producer makes the case for recognizing non-traditional forms—including dance-driven, non-narrative shows like this—on Broadway.
TyLie Shider Receives ArtYard Playwright Fellowship
The award comes with a 9-month residency, housing, rehearsal space, a $20,000 stipend, and an $8,000 play development budget, and it culminates in a final showcase.
Playwrights Foundation Announces Programming Changes
The Bay Area Playwrights Festival will become a biennial hybrid offering, the Resident Playwrights program will become a 2-year residency, and the foundation will conclude their Rough Readings program.
Black Arts MKE Announces Theatre Festival Lineup
The 3-week-long event will offer ticketed and free events at various venues throughout Milwaukee this summer.
Further Down the River
As the play-commissioning project Nuestro Planeta turns 1, a writer-director team revisits Colombia and learns of the strength of the Amazon communities.
3 High School Students Named U.S. Presidential Scholars in Theatre
Lauren Mei, Zariyah Perry, and George Porteous have been recognized for their achievements in theatre.
Matt M. Morrow Named Center REP Artistic Director
Morrow, who spent the last 8 years running San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre, will lead the company in residency at the East Bay’s Lesher Center for the Arts.
When Lynne Met Barry: The Story of Manhattan Theatre Club
The company’s 5-decade journey from Off-Off-Broadway outlier to Broadway powerhouse has been steered all along by the same 2 leaders.
Do We Not Laugh? Revising ‘The Complete Works’ for 2023
A comic theatre staple that originated at the ’87 Edinburgh Fringe, this speed-Shakespeare romp has gotten a new revision for the age of #MeToo and #Black Lives Matter.
EST’s First Light Festival Presents 6 New Plays
The festival, part of the EST/Sloan Project to develop plays exploring science and technology, continues through June 23.
