Molly Brennan, Chicago’s Queen of Mischief and Make-Believe
She’s tackled nearly every kind of role at every kind of theatre, and this purple-haired local treasure shows few signs of skipping town or slowing down.
People’s State of the Union Invites Cultural and Poetic Dialogue
In response to the president’s speech, a new U.S. arts-and-culture agency issues a call for stories and poems as part of a plan create new civic rituals.
Ana Rose O’Halloran in as Executive Director of Antaeus Company
The Los Angeles-based classical collective has a new leader with nonprofit experience.
Stephanie Gularte Is New Producing Artistic Director at American Stage
The former founding artistic director of California’s Capital Stage Company is tapped to lead the South Florida theatre.
Cygnet Theatre to Mount ‘Dogfight,’ ‘Stupid F***ing Bird,’ Two Cowards and More
The San Diego theatre’s 2015-16 season has West Coast premieres and a rotating rep. Also this season: a new associate artistic director, Rob Lutfy.
TCG’s Teresa Eyring Honored for Management by USITT
The backstage-industry nonprofit recognizes Eyring’s legacy of leadership in the field as well as at Theatre Communications Group.
Adam Szymkowicz, a Regular at ‘Clown Bar’
While his play about gangster clowns surfs the immersive-theatre wave, the well-known blogging playwright has other tricks up his sleeve.
10 Troupes Who’ve Been to ‘The Mountaintop’
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are 10 notable recent productions of Katori Hall’s oft-produced two-hander.
Onstage This Week: Jan. 19-26
From the fanciful to the profound, and all points in between—including the fanciful and profound, i.e., Gertrude Stein—this week onstage boasts as wide a range of authors, genres and theatre sizes as we’ve seen in a long while.
Kenneth Jones Tells an ‘Alabama Story’ of Race and Censorship
A real-life controversy about a children’s book from 1959 is the basis for a new play with freshly relevant themes.