The Final Collaborator: Why New Work Needs Audiences
As developmental spaces dwindle, the New York Stage & Film Summer Season preserves a crucial part of theatremaking: the moment when artists and audiences shape a work together.
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Bodies in Space: A Report From Physical Theater Festival Chicago
For a week in early June, theatremakers from all over the world, and from the Windy City itself, converged in Chicago to test the limits of play and possibility.
Václav Havel Would Want Us to Fight—and Hope
Next month’s Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival will offer an NYC showcase to smart, often bleakly comic new work from Central and Eastern Europe.
New Plays Take Flight in the Mile High City
Over its 20-year run, the Colorado New Play Summit hasn’t just developed fresh pieces of theatre; it has also developed an audience for new work.
Where Stories Take Root: La Jolla’s Latinx New Play Festival
The gathering’s eighth edition was grounded in narratives of faith, myth, and spirituality that define the complexities of the Latinx experience, for better or worse.
Visions of Musical Theatre Futures at NAMT
Reflections on craft, style, new voices, and more at National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s recent fall conference and Festival of New Musicals.
No Bystanders at the Philly Fringe
After taking in nearly a week of performances, some durational and all participatory on some level, can I really go back to everyday, run-of-the-mill theatre?
Chasing the Cool at Williamstown Theatre Festival
This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers.
A New-Play Fest Stands Alone
The Contemporary American Theater Festival is now the only U.S. gathering of its kind that fully stages all its offerings—and that matters more now.
Going the Distance at Manila’s Virgin Labfest
Now in its 20th year, this gathering of Filipino and Filipino American theatremakers helps to bridge gaps of language and culture—and to offer a kind of mutual homecoming.
