Mildred’s Umbrella Announces 2015–16 Season
The season’s roster includes works (mostly) by, for and about women.
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Dispatches from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
The season’s roster includes works (mostly) by, for and about women.
The theatre’s Disability Visibility Project aims to encourage more productions from a growing theatrical literature, and more work for disabled artists.
Ten months after the killing of Michael Brown, playwright Lee Patton Chiles conjures voices from the struggle on a nearby stage.
Cristina Castro and James Tyler will each receive the $14,000 fellowship for early-career writers of color.
The new season will tackle themes of existentialism, fear and science fiction.
The playwright/director has won the $50,000 prize for his contribution to the arts in Minnesota.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘Octoroon’ and Kristoffer Diaz’s ‘The Upstairs Concierge’ bookend celebrations of the theatre’s neighborhood and of the Latino theatre movement.
The Blue Barn Theatre has found a way to create a new home that’s both financially responsible and aesthetically appropriate.
Program includes a retreat in upstate New York and an award to a female playwright from the Great Plains Theatre Conference.
The season, partly selected by incoming artistic director Joseph Haj, is big on revivals, as well as area premieres of David Greig’s ‘The Events’ and Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced.’