Experimenting in the Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs
The Minnesota company builds community around dramatists with its annual 10-day festival devoted to developing new work.
The Minnesota company builds community around dramatists with its annual 10-day festival devoted to developing new work.
Theatres across the nation are producing Steve Yockey’s upbeat ‘Blackberry Winter,’ but in his hometown it’s paired with a play in a more troubled vein.
In a life spanning a century of artistic adventure, trans-Atlantic exchange, and behind-the-scenes machinations, Seawell’s greatest legacy was transforming downtown Denver.
This week representatives from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition school American Theatre editors on better ways to talk about cultural appropriation and yellowface, and offer tips both for interpreting problematic works from the past and for creating new, more diverse work.
Part church service, part confessional, part standup routine, the playwright/performer’s new show mines intestinal distress for laughs and discomfort.
Copy & waste and English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center address gentrification with a little help from Marty McFly.
Writing a play about ancestors consumed by an atrocity became an unexpected passport to a homecoming.
The artistry of Deaf and disabled theatre workers has been amply demonstrated. Why aren’t they centerstage more regularly?
If Deaf stories and actors are having a moment, from ‘Spring Awakening’ to ‘Tribes,’ it’s only because the rest of the world is finally discovering a well-established theatrical tradition.
Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.