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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 ...
In a nation where the arts and education are under attack, it’s more than vital ever for young people to have opportunities to explore the arts with organizations that offer after-school learning, ...
Michael Urie and the festival’s co-founders are bringing Pride Plays to the nation’s capital for this year’s 50th anniversary of WorldPride. “When Woolly Mammoth approached us about bringing Pride ...
A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her work. A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by ...
Tharp has turned the tables on both dance and theatre, while having her cake and eating it, too.
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 ...
As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...
In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she ...
From conservatories to MFAs to youth ensembles, the best training to reflect human behavior onstage can take as many forms as life itself. Just as there’s no one right way to act, there’s no one right ...
One of the nation’s most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work. The following is a version of a ...
It was a refrain Kate Powers heard repeatedly as she began to knock on the (digital) doors of corrections facilities throughout Minnesota in early 2017, attempting to get a foot in the door for her ...
Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...