7 Steps for Achieving Gender Parity in the Theatre
At an April conference in Toronto, we came up with a plan for change that can take root and grow into a more equitable future for female theatre artists.
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Regina Taylor’s ‘stop.reset.’ Gives the Goodman Something to Tweet About
The author’s new play about the advance of technology offers tweet seats, an interactive hallway entrance and a microsite.
In Hollywood, Theatre Is Already on the Fringe, So Why Not Name It and Claim It?
Modeling itself after Edinburgh, the Hollywood Fringe Festival may be bigger than ever, but the shows are still small, scrappy and uncurated.
Rules of Clubbed Thumb: Funny, Strange, Provocative—and Fast
The troupe’s 20th Summerworks festival, featuring plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jaclyn Backhaus, showcases both its downtown aesthetics and its experimental work ethic.
What You Missed at the Tony Awards
While CBS ran commercials, a lot of important, even historic, awards were doled out.
The House Jac Alder Built: More Than Just a Theatre, a Theatre Community
Colleagues remember the visionary cofounder of Theatre Three, who died two weeks ago.
Turning Nashville’s Moment into New-Play Momentum
Plays in Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab go from seedling to sapling. The town’s new-play scene, and the appetite for it, is growing, too.
Great Plains Theatre Conference: A Homecoming of the Mind
One week each year, a Nebraska campus becomes a hub for playwrights to rekindle camaraderie and dreams—oh, and present some fierce new work.
‘Zombie: The American’ Occupies the White House
Robert O’Hara’s new play for Woolly Mammoth mixes Jacobean drama with political satire and the zombie apocalypse to make a statement about the undead way we live now.
Mixed Blood Puts Money Behind a Body of Disability Work
The theatre’s Disability Visibility Project aims to encourage more productions from a growing theatrical literature, and more work for disabled artists.
