South Coast Repertory Announces 13 Productions for 2016–17 Season
The season will include a mix of new and classic plays, and theatre for young audiences.
The season will include a mix of new and classic plays, and theatre for young audiences.
South Coast Rep’s venerable new-works fest offers a mellow, writer-focused sampling of fresh material.
From Honolulu to Boston, a look at institutions that produce theatre for young audiences.
With ‘Aubergine’ at Berkeley Rep and ‘Office Hour’ at South Coast Rep, Cho returns to playwriting after six years.
From spiritual connections to channeling spirits, this month’s theatre pros run the gamut.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Qui Nguyen are this year’s finalists.
She may have hoped to write a comfy play about the vagaries of menopause and after, but, in her art as in her life, she couldn’t take the easy way.
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.
The late director was expert at new plays, musicals, and classics, and as sensitive with actors as with design. Another art he mastered: friendship.
Among the offerings at South Coast Rep’s influential new work fest this year were plays inspired by its astonishing diversity.