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In a change addressing significant financial challenges for the small nonprofit, DCT will scale back productions and pause its education program. “Although our performances are well-attended and our ...
Michael Urie and the festival’s co-founders are bringing Pride Plays to the nation’s capital for this year’s 50th anniversary of WorldPride. “When Woolly Mammoth approached us about bringing Pride ...
Sam Shepard, like Elvis, has found an infectious groove in the cracks of American mythology. Why does the author of ‘True West’ write plays? To see and hear things he can’t find anywhere else.
Lynn Nottage returns to the top of this list, which she dominated last year as well, after popping on and off the list since 2016. She earns the top spot on the strength not only of Clyde’s, but a ...
Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...
It was a refrain Kate Powers heard repeatedly as she began to knock on the (digital) doors of corrections facilities throughout Minnesota in early 2017, attempting to get a foot in the door for her ...
A dialogue on how students, teachers, and parents can push back against a wave of conservative legislation and intimidation that threatens to chill theatrical expression. The kooky, macabre musical ...
Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...
As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...
What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...