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The Gift of Living in Whitney White’s Queendom. By Brittani Samuel. An intrepid, in-demand force in the American theatre, this writer-director is finding more to say through Shakespeare’s only recurring female character, Queen Margaret. Entrances and Exits in Arts Journalism. Naveen Kumar Is Looking Forward to D.C.
Fall 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
Offscript: Most-Produced With Heidi Shreck, Rajiv Joseph, and Kate Hamill. Fall 2024 October 4, 2024 American Theatre Editors 0 Comments. On this episode we broke the news of which plays and playwrights will be the most produced this season. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and some most-produced playwrights on new play development.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2024-25 Season
Sep 25, 2024 · The U.S. Constitution has been called a living document, but it has seldom felt more alive than in Heidi Schreck’s searching, humane quasi-memoir What the Constitution Means to Me, which tops our list for the second year in a row.It is probably not surprising, given that we’re in a uniquely fraught election year, that theatres around the …
Fall 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
Kya Brickhouse in The Exodus Ensemble production of “HAMLET.” (Photo by Elias Rios) Tales From Behind the Scenes By Boutayna Chokrane Hear from some of the folks who ensure that the show goes on as they recall memorable moments in their careers. Every Show for Everyone By Crystal Paul Looking to push beyond the occasional “sensory-friendly” offerings, some theatremakers are moving the ...
Theatre in Crisis: What We’re Losing, and What Comes Next
Jul 24, 2023 · The last time American theatres faced a crisis of contraction anything like the one they’re facing now—with significant layoffs at New York City’s Public Theater and Dallas Theater Center, season “pauses” at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum and Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company, emergency fundraising at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Westport Country Playhouse, not to mention a ...
Summer 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
By Chris Myers, Jocelyn Prince, Martine Kei Green-Rogers, and Michael Rohd. In partnership with the Ford Foundation, American Theatre is launching this series of provocative essays by some of the industry’s brightest minds responding to the questions: Where have we been? Where are we going? What does a hopeful, equitable future look like for ...
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News - AMERICAN THEATRE
3rd Annual Breaking the Binary Festival Programming Announced. News September 30, 2024 American Theatre Editors 0 Comments. Running Oct. 21-27, the festival features works from multiple trans, nonbinary, and two-spirit+ artists.
Spring 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
Black Out: An Ongoing National Movement of Audience Curation. Led initially by playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Jeremy O. Harris, Black affinity nights are proliferating at theatres across the U.S. American Theatre provides news, features, artist interviews, and editorials about theatre in the US and abroad.
‘Clyde’s’ Is Most-Produced Play, and Lynn Nottage Most-Produced ...
Sep 23, 2022 · Order up! American Theatre’s most-produced plays and playwrights lists are back after a COVID hiatus, and at the top of both lists is Lynn Nottage, with her brand new sandwich-shop-as-purgatory comedy Clyde’s topping the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays List, and her Pulitzer winner Sweat not far behind. On the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list, she is tied with the prolific Lauren Gunderson ...