Despite the Pandemic, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like ‘Christmas Carol’
Amid the constraints of social distancing, perhaps more urgently because of them, many U.S. theatres are finding ways to bring audiences an annual dose of Dickens.
All Stories About Rob Melrose
No Show
If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after?
The Turnover Recipe: Add New Voices and Audiences, Stir
What should we expect from the U.S. theatre’s field-wide changing of the guard? A new generation of leaders gives cause for cautious optimism.
The Next 10 Years
10 new artistic directors talk about their visions for their communities, and for the theatre field writ large.
Alley Theatre Names Rob Melrose Artistic Director
The Houston theatre taps the San Francisco director as its new leader after the contested departure of longtime a.d. Gregory Boyd.
Cutting Ball Passed to Ariel Craft
Where will she take the experimental theatre she inherits from its co-founders? Its history of risk and radicalism points the way.
Cutting Ball Theater’s Artistic Director to Go on Sabbatical
Rob Melrose will take a one-year sabbatical, and co-founder Paige Rogers will oversee the theatre during his absence.
Cutting Ball Managing Director Suzanne Appel to Step Down
Cutting Ball’s first managing director transitions to a new position at Hubbard Street Dance in Chicago.
