New Black Fest: The Revolution May Be Theatricalized
Play reading festivals come and go, but there was something electric and urgent about this year, the fest’s 7th.
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Raising the Bar at the Colorado New Play Summit
Denver Center’s annual new-play festival, now in its 12th year, shows writers in dialogue with the moment.
One Way New Plays Are Born: Pacific Playwrights and Chill
South Coast Rep’s venerable new-works fest offers a mellow, writer-focused sampling of fresh material.
Change, Momentum, and Ghost Stories at Humana 2016
Actors Theatre of Louisville’s latest new-play fest reflected a nation, and a field, rushing to the future, haunted by the past.
Tomorrow’s Theatre Today at the Colorado New Play Summit
At the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’s annual new play festival, diversity was front and center.
PlayPenn, Where the Playwright’s in Charge
New plays get a chance to stretch out in Philly’s “development heaven.”
Humana Festival 2015 Stretched Plays, and Audiences, to Their Breaking Point
A collection of not-so-straight plays, an ensemble-devised work and an African-American living-room play made up the main slate at Actors Theatre’s annual new-play gathering.
Get Me Rewrite: The Colorado New Play Summit Is a Developing Story
Expanding its offerings to a second week, the Denver Center’s annual new-play meeting gives featured writers more time to get their plays in shape—many of them for the mainstage.
Offscript: Humana Festival Edition
AMERICAN THEATRE looks back on the 38th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, which featured new plays by Kimber Lee, Lucas Hnath and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. AMERICAN THEATRE’s senior editor Rob Weinert-Kendt sat down over Skype for a podcast conversation with two theatre critics: Erin Keane—arts reporter and theatre critic from Louisville’s NPR station WFPL—and Bill Hirschman, editor and critic of Florida Theater On Stage. They discussed the festival’s offerings, if art for art’s sake is a good idea and the critic’s obligation to the playwright.
Did You See What I Saw?
Excursions into the human psyche were de rigueur at this year’s Humana.
