Conservatory Director Melissa Smith to Leave American Conservatory Theater
Peter J. Kuo and Danyon Davis will step in for Smith, who has led the conservatory for 25 years.
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Online This Week: Games, Greed, and Memory
This week: a Nick Cordero memorial tribute, festivals of Latinx writers and young playwrights, Harriet Harris as Eleanor Roosevelt, and a Madhuri Shekar encore.
ACT Announces 2020-21 MFA Programming
The conservatory will present virtual productions this fall, plus four possible in-person shows for 2021.
ACT Announces Live and Virtual Programming Through 2022
The San Francisco company will produce a radio version of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ a film of a Heather Christian musical, plus five in-person productions.
A.C.T. Awards Honorary Master of Fine Arts Degrees
Playwright Lydia R. Diamond and Magic Theatre’s outgoing artistic director Loretta Greco will receive degrees at a virtual graduation ceremony.
All Together Now, But Virtually
How do you rehearse via Zoom and other online platforms? Training programs are figuring it out, scene by scene.
Onscreen This Month: Quarantine Edition
A spate of canceled shows from Louisville to Milwaukee were caught on video before the pandemic shutdown, and now you can watch them at home.
No Show
If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after?
Streams Before the Flood?
Streaming and video-captured options for shuttered shows could be more than a stopgap solution.
The Show Goes On Video
Theatres across the country are turning to video-capture as a way to share canceled shows.
