CHICAGO: Chicago Dramatists has announced that Victoria Podesta is the organization’s new executive director. Podesta started her new position on Jan. 1. Prior to her appointment, no one held the ...

The author of ‘The Nether’ wrote her new play in graphic-novel form, and now it’s getting a multimedia staging at CenterREP. “I have a soft spot, in my core,” confessed multimedia theatre artist Jared ...

In this month’s newsletter, Allison checks in on Brown/Trinity Rep’s MFA programs and asks educators about students auditioning for professional roles. The tour of the children’s musical Finn, about a ...

This month we speak to the playwright and director of a new play at the Huntington, and check in with NY Times critic at large Maya Phillips. You can download the ...

The versatile director returns to Little Rock, joining executive director Will Trice and producing director Ken-Matt Martin to lead their hometown regional theatre into its next chapter. “I grew up on ...

NAPLES, FLA.: The Naples Players (TNP) has announced that after a competitive national search, CEO and executive artistic director Bryce Alexander has selected Phillip Fazio to join him in leading the ...

Theatre in Kosovo—state-sanctioned and safe during the Soviet era, scrappy in the war years—offers models both cautionary and instructive for U.S. theatres facing headwinds. If the past is any guide, ...

Barbara Beckley, an actor and producer who helped found the Colony Theatre in 1976 and served as its artistic director from 1984 to 2017, died on Jan. 26. I met Barbara Beckley 35 years ago when she ...

In Zora Howard’s new play, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, a relaxing evening is interrupted by an altercation with the police. “Everything goes how we expect these things to go for Black people,” ...

2 women whose lives were touched by the legendary director and teacher, who died on Jan. 18 at age 94, give her tribute. The commissioning program Generation Now emerged from a desire to diversify TYA ...

Last week American artists and arts organizations learned that they won’t be spared from President Trump’s attempts to reshape the federal government in his image, which has roiled agencies all over ...

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