Bill Pullman Plays Othello as a Stranger in a Strange Land (Norway)
Language and culture, not race, are the faultlines in a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy by Norwegian director Stein Winge.
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East West Players Prepares for a More Diverse 2042
The new 51% Preparedness Plan calls for SoCal theatres to lead the national charge toward greater diversity onstage, backstage and in the house.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Launches New Fellowship for Theatre Leaders
With the new Paul Nicholson Arts Management Fellowship, OSF strives to get more diverse leaders into the pipeline.
6 Out-of-the-Book Adaptations of ‘Into the Woods’
From little black dresses to jeans, bicycles to balloons, six memorable reinventions of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” from 2014 (not counting the movie).
Tracy Young Travels Through ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ at Oregon Shakes
A new staging of Madeleine L’Engle’s sci-fi classic is the newest entry in director Tracy Young’s genre-hopping, ensemble-focused career.
Fresh Canon Fodder
How Oregon Shakes is using coproductions to help create a body of American history plays.
Awards and Prizes for January 2014
Chicago Jeff Awards, Suzi Bass Awards and Ovation Awards lead a number of ceremonies and honors this month.
News in Brief for November 2013
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre rounds up $29,900 for a new teaching center, black playwright Ed Bullins is honored with his own season at the New Federal Theatre, and more from November’s news items.
Robert Schenkkan Tells LBJ’s History in Rotating Rep
A Texas playwright takes on an iconic Texas politician in ‘All the Way’ and ‘The Great Society,’ and finds a figure of Shakespearean—i.e., tragic—proportions.
2 New Plays Put a Contemporary Spin on Robin Hood
David Farr’s ‘The Heart of Robin Hood’ and Greg Banks’s ‘Robin Hood’ render Sherwood Forest with tinges of feminism and Occupy Wall Street.
