Mia Chung, Emma Wippermann Win 2023 Whiting Awards for Drama
The dramatists will present a reading with the other 2023 award winners at the Center for Fiction on March 30.
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PlayPenn Announces New Initiatives for Playwrights
The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn and a new digital speaker series are designed to help serve even more writers this year.
Theatrical Mustang: For Taylor Adams, All Theatre Is Drag
The Omaha-based director talks about theatre’s collective brain, doing queer art on Catholic campuses, and how to break through the gender binary in casting.
Dancing Toward Change
With her troupe MorDance, Morgan McEwen aims to treat dancers fairly and change the stories ballet tells, both on- and offstage.
Actors’ Equity and LORT Reach New Tentative Agreement
The agreement comes after 6 days of in-person bargaining and multiple sessions on Zoom.
Two River’s 2 New Leaders: A Sort of Homecoming
Artistic director Justin Waldman and managing director Nora Deveau-Rosen have taken over a New Jersey theatre not far from NYC but with strong roots in its community.
Sarah Mantell Wins 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
They take the honor for the as-yet-unproduced play ‘In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,’ written for cast of 7 women, non-binary, and trans actors over 50.
Billie Holiday Theatre Receives National Medal of Arts
The Billie has received this award in recognition of 50 years carrying the mantle for Black voices and Black artistic expression in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
New School Names Jermaine Hill Dean of Drama
The acclaimed music director and former interim dean of theatre at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee will join the New School faculty this summer.
People’s Light Announces the Kiln New Works Program
6 artists will present new works in development over 2 weekends in April.
