News

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 ...
Extreme Vetting and Extraordinary Ability By Miriam Felton Dansky The politics of international artist visas have never run smooth, but they’ve become increasingly bumpy in a changing U.S. Here, There ...
An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...
An avowed holiday skeptic, Aunt Trudy has been recruited to channel her late husband Joe’s famous Christmas cheer over a Zoom call with family. But as Trudy becomes more absorbed in her own version of ...
A Christmas Carol Online A free and thoroughly entertaining take on the Dickens classic that integrates traditional theatrical storytelling with new media, animation, and audience participation. Make ...
A Sherlock Holmes story! The King of Bohemia enlists the services of the great detective and his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, to recover a very valuable photograph that could ruin the young king.
Just as there’s no one right way to act, there’s no one right way to learn to do it. Ask a room full of actors how they acquired the skills, life experience, and confidence they needed to be ...
Samm-Art Williams, a prolific playwright, actor, and producer best known for the play Home (currently having its first Broadway revival), as well as for roles as an actor and writer-producer on ...
There more to it than that, though. The NEA serves as a certification of sorts. Numerous leaders talked about the validation the NEA grant provides to their work, which helps morale inside their ...
Morgan Jenness, a force of nature who nurtured and inspired countless theatremakers as a dramaturg, agent, and activist, died on Nov. 12 at the age of 72. Taylor Mac’s full memorial tribute is here; ...
Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character. I don’t remember much of the conversations that ensued, ...
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 ...