2 new books show and tell the instructive story of Arena’s path-breaking co-founder, Zelda Fichandler—both the work she did and the work she left for us to continue. The postpartum-like depression ...

Last week, I visited Pittsburgh for the first time, and a bright highlight of my trip was spending an afternoon at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. The campus was bursting with ...

ASHLAND, ORE.: The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) announced Gabriella Calicchio as its new executive director. In her new position, Calicchio will oversee the business operations of the ...

Artists and industry leaders will convene in New Haven, Conn. to discuss the future of theatre and its vital importance to expression, equity, and democracy. NEW HAVEN, CONN.: Long Wharf Theatre has ...

NEW HAVEN, CONN.: This year’s digital new-work festival Black Trans Women at the Center: a New Play Festival has been announced as a co-production of Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., The ...

CHICAGO: Carson Grace Becker has stepped down from her role as Chicago Dramatists (CD) artistic director, effective Aug. 31. The board and staff have no immediate plan to name an interim leader.

She’ll leave the nonprofit media outlet, which has been covering the local theatre scene since 2012 and which she has run since 2017, at the end of this year. WASHINGTON, D.C.: DC Theater Arts (DCTA) ...

NEW YORK CITY: Signature Theatre has announced that Emily Shooltz will be the company’s new artistic director, succeeding interim leader Beth Whitaker, who has served in the role since the departure ...

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 ...

A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.

This month Brian talks to the acclaimed actor about the ups and downs of her career, why and how she wrote her first play, and whether she feels she can claim the title ‘playwright.’ Each month on The ...

This month, the editors talk with the acclaimed actor about modernized classics, language, and how ‘Oppenheimer’ led him back to the stage. You can download the ...