A.R.T. Season to Include ‘Waitress,’ Fishermen, ‘Natasha’ and Big Brother
Sara Bareilles, Dave Malloy, Mark Rylance, Eve Ensler, the TEAM and Headlong Theatre are among the artists bringing work to the Boston-area theatre.
Pasadena Playhouse Announces 2015–16 Season of ‘Curves’ and Musicals
The California theatre plans a new musical by Kirsten Guenther, Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz, plus plays by Josefina Lopez, Ricardo Khan and Harvey Fierstein.
Sex, Comedy and Mystery on Tap for McCarter’s 2015–16 Season
World-premiere laffers by Ken Ludwig and Sharyn Rothstein are on the Jersey theatre’s schedule, along with a staging of Tennessee Williams’s film ‘Baby Doll.’
Randall Duk Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso Channel the Greats in ‘Then Came Each Actor’
The couple honor theatrical history with a retrospective of great actors—Eleanor Duse, Sarah Siddons, Edwin Booth—and their greatest roles.
Cory Finley Is First Recipient of Flea Theater’s New Gurney Playwrights Fund
Named after (and financed by) playwright A.R. Gurney, a Flea mainstay, the new award is annual gift of $100,000.
Aurora Theatre Announces 2015–16 Season
The intimate Berkeley theatre’s slate includes works by Sarah Treem, Marisa Wegrzyn, Mark Jackson, Amy Freed and Athol Fugard.
7 Theatremakers Named 2015 Doris Duke Artists
Winners of the $275,000 honor from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation include Paul S. Flores, Shawn Sides, Cynthia Hopkins, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and Steven Sapp.
In ‘Cenicienta,’ an Everyday Cinderella Spins Her Own Fairy Tale Variation
A coproduction of ZACH Theatre and Teatro Vivo, Rupert Reyes’s new take on the classic features found-object puppetry and forefronts themes of empowerment.
Bringing Foreign Companies to the U.S., One Visa Application at a Time
As producers at LaMama learned with their triple ‘Tempest’ series, arranging for foreign artists to perform on U.S. soil can be a stormy process.
This Month in Theatre History
From a shooting at a theatre to the founding of one, from government crackdowns to government funds, a look back at previous Aprils in the American theatre.
