American Theater Company Names Will Davis Its New Artistic Director
The New York-based director will make his move to the Windy City to helm American Theater Company.
The New York-based director will make his move to the Windy City to helm American Theater Company.
From North America’s first theatre to a performer’s biggest success, a look back at theatrical happenings this month in years past.
The Midwestern company is blazing new trails by producing contemporary American plays.
From improv comedy shows, to multidisciplinary performances, to painted unicorns onstage, six theatre workers dish on what they are working on, and looking forward to.
From a cellist to a scenic designer, from New Haven to St. Paul, a cohort marked by versatility and vision.
Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
NNPN largesse goes to playwrights and theatres to produce, and partner to produce, new work.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘Octoroon’ and Kristoffer Diaz’s ‘The Upstairs Concierge’ bookend celebrations of the theatre’s neighborhood and of the Latino theatre movement.
For the playwright and the actor, playwriting is a game of push and pull, and being led past the comfort zone.
Theatrical Revolutions, Children’s Theatre, and festivals abound in this month’s News in Brief.