Playwrights’ Center Names McKnight Awardees
Aya Ogawa is the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission, while Gethsemane Herron and Rachel Jendrzejewski are the new McKnight Fellows.
Category Archives: Plains
Dispatches from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Theater Mu to Host AAPI Generations Conference
The weekend’s lineup includes plenaries, panels, performances, and selections from the New Eyes play-reading festival.
Itamar Moses: Every Day He Writes the Book
A playwright who finds writing musicals both impossible and irresistible, he has a new adaptation of ‘An American Tail’ opening at Children’s Theatre Company.
Peter Brosius to Step Down as Artistic Director of Children’s Theatre Company
After leading the flagship TYA theatre for 27 years, he’ll step down at the end of June.
St. Louis Shakespeare Festival Announces Confluence New-Play Festival
Three new works and a student reading will premiere at the St. Louis festival.
2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellows Announced
9 theatre artists have been awarded fellowships.
Majkin Holmquist Named Page 73 Playwriting Fellow
The fellowship comes with $10,000 for the writer, and $10,000 for a development budget.
Reggie D. White Named St. Louis Rep Associate Artistic Director
White is currently a resident artist at the Vineyard Theatre.
How Megan Terry and Jo Ann Schmidman Made Magic in Omaha
How 2 veterans of New York’s 1960s-’70s avant-garde theatre made edgy, alternative theatre in a conservative state, and what enduring lessons their example may hold out for others.
Suzan-Lori Parks: Make Space for the Difficult Things
With 3 world premieres and a Broadway revival of her hit play ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ the prolific writer keeps singing her song in a variety of keys.
