They Will Survive: Theatres That Are Beating the Odds
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing.
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing.
Cleveland Public Theatre, Company One, Crowded Fire Theater, Mosaic Theater, and Perseverance Theatre have joined in an innovation-sharing, change-making collective.
From a Conan Doyle-inspired inquiry to an Emmett Till trilogy, from a Baroque opera to an Alaskan Tlingit journey, here are some shows I’d put on my hypothetical theatre calendar.
Theatre folks from Alaska to Ohio to Misssissippi tell us where they’re seeing the most change and what they’d like to see on a stage in the coming season.
Artists of color have been placed in leadership positions across the U.S., but are they actually getting the respect and support they deserve?
Concerts and benefits, as well as starry revivals and readings, fill this week’s stocking.
This week: a Nick Cordero memorial tribute, festivals of Latinx writers and young playwrights, Harriet Harris as Eleanor Roosevelt, and a Madhuri Shekar encore.
Ishii has been serving as Perseverance’s interim artistic director since July.
Cyrano’s Theatre, and Anchorage’s small theatre community, respond to a thorny casting controversy.
On its way back from the brink of closure, Alaska’s largest theatre has eliminated its debt and found new funders.