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One of the late composer’s musical theatre successors pays tribute to his elder’s craft, creativity, and unflappable professionalism. The prolific composer Charles Strouse, who won Tonys for Bye Bye ...
Mike Davis, a journalist covering theatre in Chicago for WBEZ, has covered music, visual arts, dance, and theatre over the last 10 years. Davis was in Seattle covering the arts for KUOW when ACT ...
NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced Kamilah Long as its new director of advancement and philanthropic engagement, a new leadership role for the national organization for ...
An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...
A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.
Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...
One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...
Since the start of the regional theatre movement, most nonprofit professional theatres in the United States of America have been led by white male artistic directors. Then, about a decade ago, ...
An interview with the playwright of ‘Eureka Day’ about creating the play in a pre-Covid world and seeing the show anew through a changed society. Jonathan Spector’s play Eureka Day follows several ...
It was a refrain Kate Powers heard repeatedly as she began to knock on the (digital) doors of corrections facilities throughout Minnesota in early 2017, attempting to get a foot in the door for her ...
A stagehands’ walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide. “We hoped we wouldn’t have to do this,” explained Rigdon, who serves on IATSE’s ...
On the closing weekend of ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ its lead producer looks back at an unforgettable journey that opened a window into a mental health movement. Here’s the scene, set in 2007: I was lunching ...