New York City: The Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) has announced a new grant, in partnership with the Ford Foundation, aimed at supporting technological innovation and infrastructure in the performing ...
Victoria Lynne Barclay started to write plays when she lost her accent. “Believe it or not,” she told me one afternoon in late May, “my family don’t think I sound Scottish anymore.” Camping starts ...
In a conversation recorded at the TCG Conference in San Juan in June, writer Miranda Purcell is joined by Puerto Rican theatremakers Sylvia Bofill and Georgina Borri ...
As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, can we find in the performing arts a reflection of a common identity, even cause for patriotism? If you’d met me when I was 8, you’d likely have found me ...
For both those from the island and in the diaspora, the gathering affirmed and clarified the bridge-building power of theatre and its makers. I remember sitting in my childhood bedroom, spinning in a ...
The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action. John Adams once predicted ...
NEW YORK CITY: The Dramatists Guild Foundation, in partnership with The Lillys, have selected Brooklyn-based writer and actor Brittany K. Allen and playwright, performer, and scholar-artist Anterior ...
A look at the American Laboratory Theatre, where Richard Boleslavsky and Maira Ouspenskaya introduced young American actors to their version of Stanislavski’s system. After the Moscow Art Theatre left ...
*There will actually be 12 productions of Dial M this season, but two will use the original Knott version, not the Hatcher adaptation. This list was culled from 1,281 productions at 305 TCG member ...
Who better to take the pulse of a changing industry than with the folks at the hub of the wheel: stage managers. In November 2022, Lisa Smith was weighing whether to continue stage managing or to ...
From Bernard Herrmann to Luis Buñuel, filmic influences found their way into his musicals’ form and content, up to and including his final show, ‘Here We Are.’ In its current state, Here We Are feels ...
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...