Yale Drama Series Award Goes to Barbara Seyda for ‘Celia, a Slave’
The playwright’s docutheatre piece, about an infamous case involving a young slave convicted for killing her master, takes top prize.
The playwright’s docutheatre piece, about an infamous case involving a young slave convicted for killing her master, takes top prize.
Whatever Shakespeare’s intentions, the actor/writer argues, the role now offers a chance to reflect on race as it’s lived now. But are we up for that?
The slate ranges from Neil Simon to Julia, from a bio-drama about Justice William O. Douglas to ‘Man of La Mancha.’
The Houston theatre’s series includes a ‘Sweet Potato Queens,’ a world premiere from Melissa Manchester and Rupert Holmes.
Playwright Pearl Cleage, for whom tales of the Harlem Renaissance were childhood bedtime stories, reflects on her 1995 period piece.
New $52-million effort will support and study the audience-development work of 26 arts organizations, including 8 theatres.
Richard Engling’s ‘Afterlife Trilogy,’ inspired by his late friend Fern Chertkow, includes two novels and a new play, ‘Anna in the Afterlife.’
The company’s landmark recreation of the Weill/Gershwin/Hart musical from 1941 sets out to recapture the show’s original glamour.
New plays, musicals, puppetry pieces and cabaret shows will get an airing at the storied development center.
The inheritor of the defunct L.A. Weekly Awards honored the town’s 99-seat-and-under theatres, which are feeling besieged at the moment.