Madeleine Lambert Named Alabama Shakes Associate AD
The leader, performer, and educator succeeds deputy artistic director and education director Greta Lambert (no relation) in the role.
Category Archives: South Central
Stories from the South, in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Micah-Shane Brewer Named Nashville Rep Artistic Director
Brewer is currently a producer at the theatre.
TheatreSquared Honored With Architecture Awards
The theatre’s new building has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects and USITT.
A New-Play Fest Is Born in Greenville, S.C.
The latest entry in the new-play festival game, staged in August across 5 venues in an arts-centric town, had impressive local buy-in and enthusiastic full houses.
On Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival
Back in August after a pandemic hiatus, the biennial gathering of Black theatremakers reclaimed its status as both a reunion and a showcase for new work.
Robert Barry Fleming’s Sense of Scale
Actors Theatre of Louisville’s artistic director sets the record straight about the status of the Humana Festival and the company’s ongoing efforts to match ambition with capacity.
The Sun Sets on Southern Rep
After 36 years of artistry in the Gulf South, and a move to a permanent space that didn’t pan out, the theatre’s board president says they have “exhausted all options.”
Del Shores Foundation Writers Search Recognizes LGBTQ+ Southerners
The first awards go writers from Texas, North Carolina, and Georgia.
In Arkansas, a New Festival, and a New Way of Doing Things
Bringing together 300 artists from 8 U.S. communities, Live in America is banking on place-based performance as the radical way forward.
In Louisville There Once Was a Festival
Every April for decades, producers, theatre mavens, and critics would gather to binge new plays at the Festival of New American Plays. But not this April.
