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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 …
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 ...
AMERICAN THEATRE | Show and Telemachus: Joseph Medeiros’s …
22 hours ago · 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 whitewashed floor of Theaterlab, a small performing arts space in Manhattan’s Garment District, gesturing ...
News - AMERICAN THEATRE
Dec 12, 2014 · American Theatre provides news, features, artist interviews, and editorials about theatre in the US and abroad.
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 ...
About Us - AMERICAN THEATRE
American Theatre magazine is the nation’s only general-circulation magazine devoted to theatre. Founded in 1984 by the pioneering arts service organization Theatre Communications Group, the magazine featured cowboy-hatted playwright Sam Shepard on its first cover in April of that year. Since the fall of 2023, it is published quarterly. American …
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 …
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 …
AMERICAN THEATRE | Scalia/Ginsburg
An operatic comedy hailed as “a dream come true” by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It tells the story of the friendship between the notorious RBG and her fierce judicial opponent Antonin Scalia through the lens of the art form they both adored. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please join us …
AMERICAN THEATRE | From Chicago: All the World’s a Stage
Aug 27, 2024 · Gabriela Furtado Coutinho investigates the DNC’s theatricality. Chicago streets have been closed, but that can’t stop brat girl summer.Brat, or “very honest,” theatre is just heating up.The Chicago premiere of A Case for the Existence of God has been enjoying an extended run through Sept. 7, a fresh site-specific Eurydice opened on Aug. 23, and the city staple La Havana Madrid was ...