There is currently a generational change in our field, as long-time artistic directors retire, paving the way for fresh energy and new ideas. Blake Robison. But stepping into an institutional role is ...

MILWAUKEE: Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) has announced Emily Trask as its new artistic director, effective July 13. Trask succeeds longtime artistic director Suzan Fete, whose 33-year tenure shaped ...

NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for theatre and publisher of this magazine, has announced Tianyu Lei and Viktoriia Shlenova as the 2026 recipients of the Willa ...

They’re present in What to Send Up When It Goes Down, a work that draws its audience into communion via a conjuring circle for holding all the rage, sorrow, and grief that are regular byproducts of ...

NEW YORK CITY and SAN DIEGO, CALIF.: The Public Theater and the Old Globe have announced today that they will be co-hosting the first joint bicoastal cohort of cultural critic Jose Solís’ BIPOC ...

In our Spring issue, we look at some long-standing structural and systemic challenges facing the regional theatre movement—and celebrate the luminous new work still being made in spite of them. The ...

A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her work. A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by ...

AMY HERZOG: This play—it’s exquisite. I hadn’t read it before, so thank you for asking me to do this. A.K. PAYNE: I really appreciate it. I wanted to talk to you because I read 4000 Miles, and it was ...

Evan Yionoulis has always been a woman of the theatre, growing up from the kind of child who wrote and directed the school play, to an undergraduate who could turn a dining hall into a theatrical ...

Of course, if it feels like Schmigadoon! contains many more quotes and references than that, that is hardly a mistake. As the show’s book writer-composer-lyricist Cinco Paul showed me in a recent ...

Sometimes prose isn’t enough; artivism requires something louder. Carissa Atallah’s “part play, part slam poem” Brown Face embraces that need head-on. From May 7 through 24, this world premiere with ...

“Sing out, Louise!” my mom would call to me when I left the house in the morning. Not every day—that would have been a bit much. But if I had an audition or interview or a class presentation, she’d ...