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The partnership between the theatre group and facility will include an opening production of ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ by Jocelyn Bioh and free community events. This month spotlights a collaboration between the University of Tennessee and …
Fall 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
Kya Brickhouse in The Exodus Ensemble production of “HAMLET.” (Photo by Elias Rios) Tales From Behind the Scenes By Boutayna Chokrane Hear from some of the folks who ensure that the show goes on as they recall memorable moments in their careers. Every Show for Everyone By Crystal Paul Looking to push beyond the occasional “sensory-friendly” offerings, some theatremakers are moving the ...
Spring 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
From the Editor Contributors From the Executive Office Front and Center: Alliance Theatre’s The Preacher’s Wife, discounts for young audiences, Black Out nights, Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans’s The Felt Menagerie, Know Theatre’s The Light Chasers, Court Theatre’s Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution People …
Play Index - AMERICAN THEATRE
In November 1985, American Theatre magazine’s second year of existence, Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice appeared in its pages. It was the first full play text the magazine had published. Below is a complete (and constantly updated) alphabetical list of plays that have graced the pages of American Theatre, organized by last name of the playwright. Click on hyperlinked play titles to read ...
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Summer 2024 - AMERICAN THEATRE
Featured Contributors From the Editor From the Executive Office Front and Center: Girls on Sand at Northern Sky Theater, Vernal & Sere’s Hurricane Season, An Enemy of the Pueblo at Western Stage, League of Live Stream Theater, League of Chicago Theatres’ Community Engagement Series, In the Pocket at True Colors Theatre People to Watch: Whitney White, Kecia Lewis
THEATRE FUTURES LANDING - AMERICAN THEATRE
Theatre Futures For this visionary series sponsored by the Ford Foundation, which will roll out through the fall of 2024, American Theatre asked leading theatre thinkers to envision the future of this art form and industry as it stands at a historic crossroads. Contributors’ thoughts are grouped in four general themes: Business models and collaboration, looking at …
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2024-25 Season
Sep 25, 2024 · The U.S. Constitution has been called a living document, but it has seldom felt more alive than in Heidi Schreck’s searching, humane quasi-memoir What the Constitution Means to Me, which tops our list for the second year in a row.It is probably not surprising, given that we’re in a uniquely fraught election year, that theatres around the …
Theatre in Crisis: What We’re Losing, and What Comes Next
Jul 24, 2023 · The last time American theatres faced a crisis of contraction anything like the one they’re facing now—with significant layoffs at New York City’s Public Theater and Dallas Theater Center, season “pauses” at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum and Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company, emergency fundraising at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Westport Country Playhouse, not to mention a ...
Theatres No Longer Bound to the Stage - AMERICAN THEATRE
Nov 21, 2023 · After entering an era of hybrid and digital programming, how have our stories expanded, and even become untethered to the stage?And how can we sustain this work in the American theatre? Spreading across 2,549 miles on land and 6,949 miles by sea, THRIVE! recipient theatres Junebug Productions, Last Call, Su Teatro, Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, and Breaking Wave ...
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