Benjamin Benne, Mallory Jane Weiss Win Portland Stage Clauder Competition
Both playwrights will have their writing workshopped in Portland Stage’s upcoming Little Festival of the Unexpected; Benne’s ‘Manning’ will get a full mainstage production.
All Stories About Portland Stage Company
Cripping Richard III: What Disabled Actors Bring to the Role
Shakespeare’s iconic villain has always been disabled, but increasingly the actors playing him—and the productions and adaptations they star in—reflect disability aesthetics and activism.
This Month in Theatre History
From Edwin Booth’s Richard III to the Federal Dance Project, from ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ to Odd Fellows Hall, this month featured some remarkable characters.
Portland Stage Announces 2020-21 Season, Virtual Festival
The festival will be livestreamed on Facebook and will feature a reading from a canceled 2020 production.
Dramatists Guild Announces DGF Writers Alliance Grants
The inaugural grants will support playwrights and the production of new works at theatres across the country.
TCG Announces 2nd Round of 2017 Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards
The awards will fund extra time for the development of 27 new productions across the country.
Portland Stage Announces 2017-18 Season
The Maine theatre slates 3 production by male authors and 5 by female writers, including a new adaptation of ‘Babette’s Feast.’
Know a Theatre: North Coast Repertory of Solana Beach, Calif.
This 194-seat theatre in San Diego’s North County has grown over three decades into a year-round professional company without losing its intimacy and immediacy.
Awards & Prizes for April 2013
The awards and prizes that have been given out since our last issue.
On the Job
Theatre pros recall the doors they’ve opened by assisting (including a few better left closed).
