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 ...

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 ...

MALVERN, PA.: Nestled among lush foliage on Conestoga Road in a relatively affluent borough that serves as the headquarters for the investment management firm the Vanguard Group and the electronics ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

New CTC leaders Rick Dildine and Jill Anderson discuss creating lasting memories for young people of all ages, from Minneapolis and beyond. “I think the most noble thing an artist can do right now is ...