Category Archives: Nationwide

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Christopher Demos-Brown, Sarah Burgess Receive the Laurents/Hatcher Award

Monetary awards will be given to each playwright and to the theatres producing the premiere productions of their plays.

The awards are bestowed to musical theatre librettists and lyricists in honor of ‘Chorus Line’ lyricist Edward L. Kleban.

The company will also participate in the worldwide celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

The new artistic director’s first initiative is to make ACT a creative home for local performers.

Six composers and lyricists will workshop four new musicals under the direction of Stephen Schwartz.

The Chicago advocacy organization Not in Our House joins theatres across the country in combatting sexual harassment.

From strippers to Scrooge, August Wilson to a holiday classic, the the San Diego theatre’s 2016–17 season runs the gamut.

From Jacobean plays to horror rock musicals, from Portland to Indianapolis, it is another varied week onstage.

Katori Hall’s 2009 play, which imagines MLK’s final night at the Lorraine Motel, has become a staple on U.S. stages.

The award for emerging female playwrights has gone to Rothstein for her play ‘By the Water.’