Category Archives: Nationwide

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TCG Announces Speaker Lineup for St. Louis Conference

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye and data analyst Jer Thorp will be the plenary speakers at the TCG National Conference this month.

The ‘SpongeBob’ director has built a career on experimentation, even within traditional forms. Her next assignment: a musical of ‘Dave.’

She will take over as the executive director of American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in August.

In just a dozen years, the performer-turned-director/choreographer’s creativity and leadership made a profound impact on Chicago and beyond.

The season will feature a world premiere play by Suzan-Lori Parks and a new Bob Dylan musical.

Works by Amy E. Witting and Mary Elizabeth Hamilton will be the first plays produced as part of the project.

Other winners include ‘Admissions,’ ‘Angels in America,’ ‘My Fair Lady,’ and more.

The ‘Falsettos’ and ‘Spelling Bee’ composer tries his hand at the Kaufman/Ferber backstager about a clan of larger-than-life stage creatures.

The drama teacher from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will be honored at the 2018 Tony Awards.

The recently laid off editor of Time Out Chicago reflects on the scene he’s covered and the state of arts journalism.