All Stories About Hana S. Sharif

Changes Come Fast, Change Comes Slow

How a cohort of artistic directors of color, recently hired at major U.S. theatres, have confronted unforeseen upheavals.

The current artistic director the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Sharif will succeed Molly Smith when the longtime AD retires in June.

Most theatres recognize that all-white seasons and casts are wrong. So why are administration, management, and staff still so homogeneous?

If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after?

How to build support for parent artists at U.S. theatres? First let’s build a movement.

The city’s chief critic sees his job as not just evaluating local work but exposing it to a wider audience.

What should we expect from the U.S. theatre’s field-wide changing of the guard? A new generation of leaders gives cause for cautious optimism.

10 new artistic directors talk about their visions for their communities, and for the theatre field writ large.

Hana S. Sharif’s inaugural season as artistic director will include world premieres by Somi and Kirsten Greenidge, and ‘Angels in America.’

Moving from Baltimore’s Center Stage to the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Sharif gives impressions of both cities and the work ahead.