Summer Breaks: How Arts Festivals Are Coping With Cancellation
Arts fests from Wisconsin to S.C. may survive a summer of virtual connection and outreach, but lean times are ahead for the towns where they take place.
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Arts fests from Wisconsin to S.C. may survive a summer of virtual connection and outreach, but lean times are ahead for the towns where they take place.
The summer season will feature 6 plays in rotating repertory, including 4 world premieres.
The father and son duo are performing in Joseph Dougherty’s historic two-hander this summer in West Virginia, and learn a lot about each other in the process.
The six-play lineup will feature five world premiere plays.
The festival will expand its slate to stage six plays in rotating repertory, including four world premieres.
Move over, NYC. From Oregon to Miami, theatres around the country are home to the nation’s most fertile new-play incubators.
How this West Virginia new-play fest builds and rides an annual new-play repertory carousel.
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This week’s guest is English director Josette Bushell-Mingo, who discusses her Swedish production of ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’ Plus, the editors talk #tcg16, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and Pokemon Go.
The Contemporary American Theatre Festival brings political, edgy, evocative new work to loyal audiences in this idyllic West Virginia town.