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In a change addressing significant financial challenges for the small nonprofit, DCT will scale back productions and pause its education program. “Although our performances are well-attended and our ...
Michael Urie and the festival’s co-founders are bringing Pride Plays to the nation’s capital for this year’s 50th anniversary of WorldPride. “When Woolly Mammoth approached us about bringing Pride ...
Tharp has turned the tables on both dance and theatre, while having her cake and eating it, too.
A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her work. A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by ...
His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, ‘Dark Disabled Stories,’ is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disabled people ...
This piece was originally written for and posted on BroadwayWorld. It is republished here with permission. Theatremakers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of ...
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 ...
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...
Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...
Lynn Nottage returns to the top of this list, which she dominated last year as well, after popping on and off the list since 2016. She earns the top spot on the strength not only of Clyde’s, but a ...
*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...
One of the nation’s most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work. The following is a version of a ...