People’s Light Announces the Kiln New Works Program
6 artists will present new works in development over 2 weekends in April.
All Stories About Carey Perloff
Fragments, Loss, and Language: On the Jewishness of Pinter and Stoppard
An excerpt from a new book about the lessons learned from staging the work of 2 major English writers.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio: Haunted by ‘Ghosts,’ Holding the Tears
Now onstage at Seattle Rep in Ibsen’s unsettling classic, she talks about the things you can and can’t convey onstage.
Williamstown Announces New Play Award and Commissions
John J. Caswell Jr. is the recipient of this year’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and the 2022 Jay Harris Commission.
Pam MacKinnon Takes the Helm of California’s ACT
The Tony-winning Broadway and regional freelance director succeeds longtime leader Carey Perloff.
Carey Perloff: Left Coast, Right Time
After a quarter century at the helm of ACT, the classics-minded director/playwright is quitting while she’s ahead.
Carey Perloff to Depart American Conservatory Theatre
The longtime artistic director will step down after 25 years at the San Francisco theatre.
Mark Rucker Made Room for Others, and There Was No Better Place to Be
Gentle but passionate, as handy with farce as with tragedy, the late director brought together the Bay Area’s disparate theatrical tribes like no one else.
Rebuilding While Rebelling: Carey Perloff’s First Year at A.C.T., Part 2
Her renegade first season at the earthquake-ravaged A.C.T. sparked outrage—and a surprise denouement.
Starry Williamstown Summer Includes World Premieres by Inge, Morisseau and Friedman
Highlights include real-life couple Audra McDonald and Will Swenson doing O’Neill, Eric Bogosian and Cynthia Nixon as literary types, and a double header of new British plays.
