The Other Side of Summer
How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet.
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How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet.
The writer of ‘Slave Play’ will helm a new multidisciplinary programming model at the Berkshires festival, to be previewed this summer for a 2025 launch.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
As managing director of strategy and transformation, Picciarelli will work with yet-to-be-named partners in a new collective leadership model.
The award comes with a $10,000 prize and an accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission for a new play, to be read at the festival this summer.
As theatres scrap training programs that have often been more exploitive than educational in favor of paid positions, entry-level work may grow both scarcer and more equitably accessible.
James Ijames, Kristina Wong, and Sylvia Khoury talk about what inspired their award-worthy plays and how they shaped them.
Presented in honor of his play ‘tiny father,’ the prize includes a $10,000 award and the accompanying $10,000 Jay Harris Commission to write a new play.
The embattled artistic director will be replaced by interim leader Jenny Gersten.
A movement to end unpaid and low-paid internships gains momentum, collecting testimony from more than 1,600 current and former interns.