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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a new FY26 appropriations bill proposal for the interior, environment, and related agencies released today, the House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee recommended 35 percent ...
The complete playscript of 'Amm(i)gone' appears in our Summer 2025 issue. Here the author talks with a crucial mentor about the work's inspiration, production history, and meaning.
The birth of two theatre giants, a theatre company tenure cut short by fire, and the establishing of a Wisconsin staple. The American Players Theatre opened its first production: William Shakespeare’s ...
When a documentary filmmaker turns the lens on a devoted book club, their long-standing group dynamics take a turn for the dramatic…and hilarious. The Book Club Play is a buoyant comedy filled to the ...
Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities.
While some companies can quickly plug the holes in their budgets for now, the ripple effects of across-the-board cutbacks to federal arts funding may be long-lasting and felt by the most vulnerable.
Many theatres are rethinking their board structure to address inequities and mission drift. But can new ideas break through?
Arts organizations, including dozens of theatre companies, had NEA grants withdrawn or terminated late last week, and leadership resignations at the endowment bode ill.
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.
Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes.
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 ...
What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow.