Equity and Diversity Starts at the Top
At a gathering of Boston theatre leaders and their boards last year, Bill Rauch shared tips and takeaways from Oregon Shakes’s ED&I journey.
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Bill Rauch Receives Ivy Bethune Award
Actors’ Equity Association recognizes Rauch’s efforts to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Fellowships Ahoy
After the degree (or without it), there are myriad alternatives for directors to learn their chops.
Joy, Pain, Poetry: The Life and Art of G. Valmont Thomas
The longtime OSF actor, equally a master of Shakespeare and August Wilson, wore his huge and complicated heart on his sleeve.
TCG Announces 2nd Round of 2017 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards
The awards will fund extra time for the development of 27 new productions across the country.
Extra Seasoning: Artistic Directors Share Their Faves
Whose programs do the programmers admire most? We asked some U.S. theatre leaders and they told us.
Poetry in Motion: August Wilson, Sonia Sanchez Inspire Two New Musicals
Poetry by two giants of the Black Arts Movement infuses ‘UniSon’ and ‘GIRL Shakes Loose.’
When a Writer’s Rights Aren’t Right: The ‘Virginia Woolf’ Casting Fight
A lesson for Albee’s estate from Tennessee Willams’s: Classics can survive reinvention. And while we’re reviving, how about more diversity, not less?
China’s Theatre Bubble
Most stage works don’t attract mass audiences or enjoy long runs—but there can be strength in the shadows.
The Play Makers: How New American Writing Makes It to Broadway
Is drama dying on the Main Stem? Not if these writers (and some enterprising nonprofits) can help it.
