A National Database of New Plays? Coming Right Up
Can the New Play Exchange bring transparency and efficiency to the play-submission process? That’s the idea, and soon it will be a reality.
Know a Theatre: North Coast Repertory of Solana Beach, Calif.
This 194-seat theatre in San Diego’s North County has grown over three decades into a year-round professional company without losing its intimacy and immediacy.
B.D. Wong Newest Artist-in-Residence at La Jolla Playhouse
The Tony winner will be in residence at the theatre, where he’ll develop writing and directing projects, starting this month.
Tsehaye Geralyn Hébert Wins Alliance Play Competition
The Atlanta theatre’s playwriting prize comes with a world premiere production for Hébert’s ‘THE C.A. Lyons Project.’
Director/Producer Diane Rodriguez Nominated to National Arts Post
The White House intends to appoint a longtime L.A. theatre leader to the National Council on the Arts.
Onstage This Week: Jan. 12-19
Bookended by two very different puppet shows (and two Lewis Black productions), this week’s theatrical offerings range from the raw to the urbane, the frothy to the gritty, the poetic to the prosaic.
Theater Hall of Fame Names 2014 Inductees
Susan Stroman, F. Murray Abraham and Frank Rich are among the newest inductees.
Dramatists Guild Announces 2015 Award Winners
Annie Baker, Jeanine Tesori, Charles Fuller, Chisa Hutchinson and A.R. Gurney will take home prizes at the organization’s annual awards ceremony.
Top of the Pods
Catching up with our favorite podcasts, from year-end wrapups to in-depth interviews, will keep us busy well into the New Year (or until next week, at least).
Transport Group’s 2015 Season Includes a ‘Blonde’ and a ‘Mattress’
A new musical from Dan Lipton and David Rossmer, and a revival of ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ make up the Off-Broadway company’s new season.
