Goodman Theatre’s 2015–16 Season to Include 4 World Premieres
New plays by Jose Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw, Charise Castro Smith and Seth Bockley highlight the Chicago theatre’s next season.
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Stories with a national scope.
New plays by Jose Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw, Charise Castro Smith and Seth Bockley highlight the Chicago theatre’s next season.
Citing health reasons, the leader of one of Off-Broadway’s most prominent playwright-focused theatres will step down.
The Oregon theatre’s season ranges from American classics like ‘Our Town’ and ‘Streetcar’ to solo shows, ‘Sex With Strangers’ and ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’.’
Also on the company’s slate: an original devised work about a trapped miner, and a revival of ‘A Doll’s House.’
Two new shows, ‘Snapshots’ and ‘My Heart Is the Drum,’ will receive productions, along with three Broadway favorites.
The American Theatre Wing has named the winner of the grants for musical theatre writers.
Learning how to fail well is as crucial a part of a writer’s craft as putting words on a page. With other kinds of failure, you have less control.
The NYC-based ensemble will premiere ‘the theater is a blank page,’ a collaboration with visual artist Ann Hamilton, plus more tour dates for ‘A Rite’ and ‘Steel Hammer.’
Tales of transformation and transfiguration, from ancient Greece to an apocalyptic future, populate the nation’s stages.
Also announced for the Chicago theatre are ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ and Greta Oglesby, back as Aunt Esther in ‘Gem of the Ocean.’