What Kept SCR’s Paula Tomei Coming Back for 4 Decades
As she prepares to leave her job as South Coast Rep’s first managing director, she reflects on the path here and the road ahead.
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This Month in Theatre History
August has been a month of strikes, disagreement, recovery, the coming and going of influential festivals, and a belated Broadway triumph.
Suzanne Appel Named Managing Director of South Coast Rep
She’ll leave her post at NYC’s Vineyard Theatre to succeed Paula Tomei at the Southern California new-play powerhouse.
Making a Musical ‘Prelude to a Kiss’
Craig Lucas’s fanciful, freighted romance returns to the theatre that commissioned it, South Coast Repertory, this time with songs attached.
Pacific Playwrights Fest, BIPOC Elders Grants, Essential Theatre Playwriting Award
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Voces del Teatro: Let Our Voices Be Heard
The untold history of the Latinx theatre movement in modern Los Angeles.
South Coast Repertory Announces Pacific Playwrights Festival Lineup
This year’s festival will present two world-premiere productions along with five staged readings of new works.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Receives Inaugural Pinnacle Commission
The new $60,000 commission is a joint effort by South Coast Repertory and Playwrights Horizons.
White Light, White Heat: ‘Little Foxes’ and ‘Appropriate’ in Rep
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
The Shows That Got Away and/or Found a Way
A look at 8 shows that the pandemic cut short, what’s happened to them since, and what might be next.
