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NEW YORK CITY: Manhattan Theatre Club today announced that artistic director Lynne Meadow has chosen to step into a new role as artistic advisor after 53 years as the company’s artistic director. The ...
ATLANTA: Alliance Theatre has announced that Brandon Kahn will be its new managing director, beginning Aug. 1. Kahn steps into the position previously held by Mike Schleifer for 11 years, who ...
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities. “I’m always wrestling with things. They ...
Next Steps. Even before these terminations, arts companies were reeling from a series of setbacks, with many staff members still working on partial pay.I’ve long said that as an industry we’ve done a ...
Summer stock—the time-honored tradition of professional theatres that primarily operate from early through late summer, with repertory companies that rehearse and perform simultaneously—is still very ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Trump has released a 2026 budget proposal which includes, among many deep cuts to federal spending, the wholesale elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, the ...
In the singing land that is the musical theatre, orchestrators are too unsung.These showbiz pros do much to give a musical a distinctive sound and feel, and yet—the Tony Award for orchestrators ...
They are among the most famous words spoken by a woman in a canonical American play: “Attention must be paid.” It’s Linda Loman, of course, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, admonishing her ...
In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she ...
Across the board, the bottom line for theatres has lagged in recent years. For a majority of Trend Theatres in 2023, Theatre Facts reported a negative change in unrestricted net assets (CUNA), an ...
One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...
In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...