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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 ...
This piece was originally written for and posted on BroadwayWorld. It is republished here with permission. Theatremakers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of ...
The star of this season’s shipwrecked Avett Brothers musical reflects on the show’s brief, brilliant voyage—and how its dark depths rescued his first love. In 2016 I was toast. My last two outings on ...
A stagehands’ walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide. “We hoped we wouldn’t have to do this,” explained Rigdon, who serves on IATSE’s ...
How a versatile actor picked up ancient Greek in his spare time, and soon became the unlikely bearer of an intimate and ancient tale—in its original language. Joseph Medeiros crouches on the ...
Access consultants and artists discuss how they create sensory conscious shows for disabled folks and their families, as well as how radical inclusivity enhances theatre for everyone. Since the start ...
Every time the disabled dance ensemble Kinetic Light wraps up a production, they leave a wave of change in their wake. That is always their plan. Before the ensemble agrees to perform at a venue, they ...
This list was culled from 1,281 productions at 305 TCG member theatres, plus 176 productions at commercial or non-member theatres, excluding plays by Shakespeare (who this season will have a total of ...
A rolling premiere award run out of the International Black Theatre Festival is having success with a flexible approach to commissioning and co-production. The idea for the award came from IBTF ...
The question isn’t whether we can break out of theatre’s dominant paradigms but how—and who will lead the charge. In their seminal anthology, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit ...
Snakes on the sidewalk. No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson movie. The snakes are real, and are just one of the seemingly endless challenges facing summer theatre companies and festivals as they ...
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 ...