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A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. The Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, supports ambitious new work for the stage and the artists who create it. Along with ...
The complete playscript of 'Amm(i)gone' appears in our Summer 2025 issue. Here the author talks with a crucial mentor about the work's inspiration, production history, and meaning.
It’s Christmas Eve. Expecting a silent night, the bartender finds himself mixing drinks for a parade of surprising guests: children from your favorite Christmas specials and movies—all grown up, ...
After this long weekend of seeing four very different plays at four unique theatres, the word that hung in my mind was diversity. So many people have talked, trained, cried, pushed, borrowed, and ...
That play was announced as part of the Arena Stage season last April with no pages, no treatment, and no title. Now, the story of Wallace “W” Tre and Free Dominic Mann, two gay Black men who meet ...
Arts organizations, including dozens of theatre companies, had NEA grants withdrawn or terminated late last week, and leadership resignations at the endowment bode ill.
Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes.
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 ...
As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet.
What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow.
A stagehands' walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide.
Kate Hamill and Rajiv Joseph tie for the top spot on a diverse list of dramatists and adaptors (*23 due to ties).