Ayad Akhtar Named 2016–17 Playwright in Residence at Arena Stage
The playwright will create a new work for a future season at the theatre.
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The playwright will create a new work for a future season at the theatre.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright receives a $25,000 award for her play about America’s industrial decline.
Highlights include a Lillian Hellman festival and new historical plays by Lisa Loomer and Jacqueline Lawton.
This week, we welcome monologists Eric Bogosian and Mike Daisey, who chat about why they love and hate solo shows. Plus, the editors discuss television, leadership transitions in Chicago, and Wooster/Pinter kerfuffle.
The Midwestern company is blazing new trails by producing contemporary American plays.
Ross will leave the Connecticut theatre to succeed Stephen Richard as the managing director of Center Stage in Baltimore.
Theatres that continue to program male-dominated seasons deserve scrutiny. But what about the many companies that are trying to get the balance right?
The playwright of ‘Ruined’ and ‘Intimate Apparel’ talks about her new play, inspired by America’s ‘de-industrial revolution’ and bowing this month at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
He’s happily played underdogs and second bananas, but in a new musical from Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, the ‘Pitch Perfect’ star at last has a role with range—and not just vocally speaking.
The American theatre as we know it didn’t just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it.