In a world that feels increasingly fragmented, two East Coast companies are offering individuals facing overwhelm and trauma the means to find restoration within their families and communities. “It’s ...

PHILADELPHIA: PlayPenn, a national new-play development center based in Philadelphia, will hold a reimagined 2025 New Play Development Conference with an expanded, citywide model. The conference will ...

In a groundbreaking theatrical venture designed to be not only the first but also the last of its kind, a Mclean, Va.-based theatre company called the Thule Society plans a summer staging of Eugène ...

SPOLETO, ITALY: This summer, La MaMa Umbria will celebrate the 26th year of its flagship symposium program in Spoleto, Italy. A symposium for directors and playwrights to learn from some of the ...

DALLAS: Dallas Children’s Theater has named Emily Ernst to be its next artistic director, succeeding Nancy Schaeffer. Her tenure began on March 3. “I’m honored to join DCT, which has long been a ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, MINN.: Six Points Theater has named Art Allen managing director, a new position in the company. In this role, he will oversee operations, marketing, audience development, and strategic plans ...

BOSTON: Following a six-month nationwide search, the board of directors for SpeakEasy Stage Company has announced the appointment of award-winning theatre artist Dawn M. Simmons as its new artistic ...

I’m in the process of moving to a new apartment, just three miles away in another Brooklyn neighborhood. But this move feels big—I’ve lived in my current place for 11 years, the longest I’ve lived ...

BANGOR, MAINE: Penobscot Theatre Company (PTC) has announced that artistic director Jonathan Berry will step down at the conclusion of the theatre’s 51st mainstage season, concluding a tenure marked ...

The complete text of Lenelle Moïse’s K-I-S-S-I-N-G, plus a Q&A with the playwright by actor April Matthis.

“Can theatre hear the SOS call that our times are sending out, in a world of impoverished citizens, locked in cells of virtual reality, entrenched in their suffocating privacy?” – Theodoros ...