Musical Theatre’s Next Generation? The NEA Is Finding and Funding It
How the endowment and American Theatre Wing’s national musical theatre songwriting competition is supporting tomorrow’s creators today.
Education
Watch This Space: Playwrights Train for All Media
As dramatists begin to write for all media, the nation’s playwriting programs are starting to teach beyond the stage.
MFA or the Highway?
7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
Write Your Own Program
What emerging writers can—and can’t—learn from schools without a playwriting concentration.
Fiasco’s Rehearsal Room Joy and Rigor, Now Available in the Classroom
The company’s new 6-week conservatory program aims to provide tools for a collaborative rehearsal process.
A Thornton Wilder World Premiere, as ‘7 Deadly Sins’ Get Their Due
Boston’s Suffolk University will present the entire set of Wilder’s ‘Sins’ one-acts for the first time in one program.
Can Freestyle Love Supreme Be Taught?
The popular improv troupe is teaching folks its blend of improv and freestyle rap, and one of its students is now with them on Broadway.
How ‘Roleplay’ Reflected Tulane’s Experiences With Assault
With the help of Goat in the Road Productions, Tulane students shaped a play in response to an assault crisis on their campus.
Stargate Theatre’s Healing ‘Sweet Water’
A theatre program run by Manhattan Theatre Club offers formerly incarcerated youth a venue to face, embrace, and share their lives.