Lileana Blain-Cruz’s Fearless Dives Into the Deep End
A go-to director of new plays, Blain-Cruz likes to work on her feet—all the better to lead a journey through an experience to an idea.
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Beyond the Traditional Talkback: ‘Act II’ Adds Voices to ‘American Song’
For a new play about gun violence, Milwaukee Rep teamed with the Zeidler Center to turn post-show dialogues into engaging and deeply personal experiences.
Beyond the School Play: High Schoolers Take the Stage With Keen Teens
The program commissions playwrights to create work for high school students from the five boroughs of New York City.
Karen Malpede Imagines a Better World in ‘The Beekeeper’s Daughter’
Known for plays that call out social injustice, the ecofeminist writer returns to an earlier, more hopeful work—but she hasn’t lost her sting.
Playwrights Learn From Each Other at Cape May Stage Symposium
Master, emerging, and mid-career writers gather for a weeklong event in southernmost New Jersey.
Start ’Em Early: Theatre for the Very Young Brings in New Audiences
In creating work for babies and toddlers, Alliance Theatre, Metro Theatre Company, and others get back to the roots of theatremaking.
Commissions With a Mission: To Create Middle Eastern American Plays
Adriana Sevahn Nichols, Yussef El Guindi, and Mona Mansour gather at the Lark to talk about what a playwriting fellowship meant to them.
In With the New: Kansas City Rep’s OriginKC Stakes Its New-Play Claim
Can the troupe’s new festival put the city on the nation’s new-play map?
From Front Page to Stage: Noor Theatre Turns Headlines Into Short Plays
The troupe’s 48 Hour Forum tackles sobering news from the Middle East with short, imaginative, often funny plays.
Young, Gifted, Black: Lorraine Hansberry After Her Moment in the ‘Sun’
Though best remembered for a single great family drama, in her short and brilliant life she produced other writing well worth a second look.
