‘Matilda’ and ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ Highlight Next TUTS Season
Theatre Under the Stars’ Broadway slate includes last year’s Best Musical Tony winner alongside three musicals built around British children.
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalists Announced
Nominees for the women-only playwright honor include Lisa D’Amour, Clare Barron, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Lindsey Ferrentino, Heidi Schreck and Ruby Rae Spiegel.
Rude Mechs Cofounder Sarah Richardson to Step Down
One of the Texas ensemble’s heads will leave her leadership role, while Alexandra Bassett will assume the newly created position of managing director.
Childsplay Theatre Stages a Drama Intervention in Arizona Schools
Armed with generous federal funding and a research partner, the Tempe-based company is helping teachers introduce drama into the classroom, with a special emphasis on language learning.
SMU’s Meadows Prize Residencies Go to Lear deBessonet and Complex Movements
A Detroit-based multimedia collective and the director of the Public Theater’s Public Works program are invited to create new urban arts projects for Dallas.
2015-16 Will Be Season of Premieres at the Colony Theatre
Patty Duke as Mary Lincoln, a Damon Runyon anthology and more highlight the Burbank theatre’s new slate.
Shotgun Players Aim to Open New Rehearsal Space
The Berkeley ensemble, which owns its own performance space, now has the keys to a new, custom-renovated rehearsal studio to prepare their work.
Onstage This Week: Feb. 2-9
Historical figures are one theme this week—there are plays about W.E.B. DuBois, Lewis Carroll and Mae West—as is a pronounced emphasis on revivals, both of classics and of significant plays of more recent vintage.
The Genius of O’Neill
He wrote his best play last, but it’s a mistake to think of the rest of the playwright’s thorny, ambitious, stammeringly poetic work as simply a warmup for ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night.’
Know a Theatre: 16th Street Theater of Berwyn, Ill.
This 49-seat venue in a small suburb west of Chicago serves its neighborhood with new plays at neighborly ticket prices.
