Artists Repertory Theatre Announces 2015-16 Season of New Plays
The slate includes Theresa Rebeck, Heidi Schreck and Terrence McNally, plus a world premiere musical set partly in Cuba, featuring the music of Tiempo Libre.
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The slate includes Theresa Rebeck, Heidi Schreck and Terrence McNally, plus a world premiere musical set partly in Cuba, featuring the music of Tiempo Libre.
The Latino theatre company’s season will include world premieres by Olga Sanchez, Karen Zacarías and Rebecca Martinez.
New plays by Eliza Clark, Qui Nguyen, Sandra Tsing Loh and Bekah Brunstetter are on the slate, as is a return of Beth Henley’s Western tale ‘Abundance,’ which bowed at SCR in 1989.
New productions of ‘Rent,’ ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ vie with a newly constructed musical, ‘Empire.’
Valdez leaves after eight years shoring up the ensemble advocacy organization.
Los Angeles is still getting a good deal, AEA’s executive director insists, if people would only take the time to study its new proposals for the city’s small theatres.
Along with plays by Sarah Ruhl, August Wilson, Howard Brenton, Ayad Akhtar and Elizabeth Irwin, MTC will premiere Rachel Bonds’s ‘Swimmers.’
As they change out managing directors, the theatre plans stage versions of books by Jane Austen and Rona Jaffe, as well as Orson Welles’s take on ‘Moby-Dick.’
After a referendum vote against its previous proposals, Equity offers new options and loopholes, but retains minimum-wage demand for small-theatre work.
The slate ranges from Feydeau to Pirandello, Shakespeare to Shaw, plus Miller and a new adaptation of Anouilh’s ‘Antigone.’