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.
Stephanie Ybarra: Change Is Going to Win
The departing leader of Baltimore Center Stage talks about the challenges the theatre field is facing, and about the changes she was able to make to address them.
Christina Anderson Wins Steinberg/ATCA Award for ‘the ripple, the wave that carried me home’
Her 2022 play took home the $25,000 prize, while Madison Fiedler won the Osborn Prize and Suzan-Lori Parks and Rebecca Gilman received citations for their work.
Sanaz Toossi Wins 2023 Pulitzer for Drama for ‘English’
The finalists are Aleshea Harris for ‘On Sugarland’ and Lloyd Suh for ‘The Far Country.’
