From Almasi to Ojai: Play Development Goes Global
A new play about health-care inequity gets the new-works-festival treatment in Zimbabwe and California.
All Stories About new-play festivals
At Powerhouse, It’s About Time
The 35th summer season at Vassar & New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater marked the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
In Colorado, Seeing New Plays Before They’re Born
Last week at the Colorado New Play Festival in Steamboat Springs, work by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Jill Sobule, among others, searched for its sound and form.
Humana’s Changing Conversation, and Who Leads It
The shows in this year’s new-play fest at Actors Theatre of Louisville were in dialogue with past offerings, no doubt, but also with our current moment.
The View From Denver’s New-Play Summit
Now under new leadership, the 14th iteration of this developmental festival again offered room, time, and shared energy to a crop of writers.
Feasting in the Festival Garden
New York’s annual experimental theatre sampler boasts plenty of chills and frills, but the real attraction is carefully crafted mayhem.
Women Ran the Table at the 2018 Humana Festival
At the 42nd Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Kilroys and Anne Bogart spoke, Lauren Gunderson got a prize, and a majority female-authored program commanded the stage.
Beyond Whiteness: A January Festival Wrap-Up
What I saw when I chose to focus on artists of color at Under the Radar, COIL, et al.
The Plays Are the Thing at the National Black Theatre Festival
Under Jackie Alexander’s leadership, North Carolina Black Rep’s biennial gathering aims to connect playwrights and producers.
Notes From a Celebration: Pacific Playwrights Festival Turns 20
South Coast’s rep for developing new work makes another strong showing.
