Know a Theatre: The Western Stage in Salinas, Calif.
From a summer festival to a year-round company, this community-based theatre brings plays and musicals to the hometown of John Steinbeck.
Hana S. Sharif: Artistic Liaison
Moving from Baltimore’s Center Stage to the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Sharif gives impressions of both cities and the work ahead.
Florida Rep Names Greg Longenhagen Artistic Director
Greg Longenhagen succeeds a.d. Robert Cacioppo, who was fired in April for alleged bullying.
Celise Kalke Named Managing Director of Synchronicity Theatre
Kalke, who succeeds playwright Lee Nowell, will join the company starting Oct. 22.
‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ and the Female Storyteller
In her boundary-breaking, civically engaged play, Heidi Schreck shows that a woman telling her story is a political, and powerful, act
A Pay-As-You-Can Season
Ubuntu Theater Project gambled on a name-your-price subscription model—and it worked.
Dominique Morisseau Among This Year’s MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellows
The writer of ‘Skeleton Crew’ and ‘Pipeline’ will receive $625,000 over 5 years.
Henry Ong (1949-2018)
A quiet fixture of L.A.’s theatre scene, Ong wrote a wide variety of plays and showed up to support even more.
Playwrights Realm Announces 2018-19 Writing Fellows
Bleu Beckford-Burrell, Sarah Einspanier, Keelay Gipson, and Else C. Went will serve 9-month fellowships at the New York City company.
This Month in Theatre History
From Jane Addams’s co-founding of Chicago’s Hull House to Jane Alexander as a fictional first female Supreme Court justice, October has been a notable month for theatre.
