Resident playwright Jonathan Norton has been named interim artistic director of Dallas Theater Center. americantheatre.org/2024/04/19/jon…
On our latest all-Chicago Offscript, we talk to actor Harry Lennix and director Ken-Matt Martin about the local premiere of August Wilson's HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED (a co-pro of Congo Square Theatre Company & Broadway In Chicago), and check in with WBEZ's Mike Davis americantheatre.org/2024/04/16/off…
Playwright Elaine Romero🌵 remembers BorderlandsTheater founder Barclay Goldsmith as a friend, colleague, nurturer, and fierce advocate for the talent and potential of others, particularly immigrants and others on the margins. americantheatre.org/2024/04/19/bar…
#tbt In our April 1985 issue, TCG leader Peter Zeisler interviewed director Lloyd Richards, on the occasion of his joining the National Council for the Arts, about the history of the regional theatre movement, the centrality of federal funding, and more. americantheatre.org/1985/04/01/a-n…
“Whether it’s psychosomatic, PTSD, autism, whatever it is, there’s a disability happening onstage. There are actors who can bring authenticity and depth to it that these folks didn’t have the ability to do. It makes me feel like we’ve stepped backwards.” americantheatre.org/2024/04/15/tom…
Tonight the Pulitzer-winning A STRANGE LOOP starts at American Conservatory Theater. We wrote about it before its premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2019 americantheatre.org/2019/03/28/mic… and checked in with Michael R. Jackson again when the show looped back to Broadway. americantheatre.org/2022/06/13/a-s…
Tonight Suzan-Lori Parks's 'Sally & Tom' opens at The Public Theater. Here's our interview with her about the play (and her busy life and the theatre) when it premiered at Guthrie Theater in 2022. americantheatre.org/2022/10/18/suz…
#AmyHerzog and #HeidiSchreck discuss adapting ‘An Enemy of the People’ and ‘Uncle Vanya' for #Broadway . @americantheatre
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.American Theatre interviews #EboniBooth about fast #writing and big #feelings .
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Tonight at Milwaukee Rep, performances of NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN begin. Check out our 2018 profile of the play's historically inspired author, Christina Ham, one of the most-produced playwrights in the U.S. that season. americantheatre.org/2018/11/27/pla…
Shaina Taub's SUFFS, a musical about the suffragists who pushed the 19th amendment over the finish line more than 100 years ago, opens tonight on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. Here's ravensnook's chat with Shaina about her hopes for the show. americantheatre.org/2024/03/21/sha…
David Adjmi's STEREOPHONIC opens tonight at Broadway's Golden Theatre. Here's our Offscript podcast from last fall talking to him about the play's creation, its staging at Playwrights Horizons, and how he's like Peter. americantheatre.org/2023/11/17/off…
What did you see at the solar eclipse? Seymour found something . . . different. Buy it didn’t burn his eyes . . . The News-Gazette ATCA American Theatre Illinois Theatre AICT/IATC Official
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire remembers the late, great Christopher Durang as 'the patron saint of aspiring weirdo playwrights,' and reflects on the writer and teacher who showed him and a generation of peers how to dance on the funny/serious tightrope. americantheatre.org/2024/04/15/chi…
'He never said 'motherfucker' on 'Ed Sullivan.'' A memorable quote from Terry Teachout about his play SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF, which starts tonight at WaterTower Theatre in Addison, Texas. Here's our 2012 preview of the play's bow at Shakespeare & Company & Long Wharf Theatre. americantheatre.org/2012/07/01/pop…
Tonight James Ijames's Pulitzer-winning FAT HAM starts performances at Seattle Rep; it also starts at Fayetteville, Ark.'s TheatreSquared next week. Here's our The Subtext Podcast interview with the playwright about the art-loving family that inspired him. americantheatre.org/2023/03/21/the…