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In the latest installment of Goes to Show, Zora Howard talks “Hang Time,” Richard Thomas revives Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain Tonight,” and your columnist Rob Weinert-Kendt fills us in on world premieres across the U.S.
Zora Howard Wants Art to Shake Us
Plus: Richard Thomas revives Hal Holbrook's 'Mark Twain Tonight,' and a listing of world premieres across the U.S.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In the latest installment of Goes to Show, Zora Howard talks “Hang Time,” Richard Thomas revives Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain Tonight,” and your columnist Rob Weinert-Kendt fills us in on world premieres across the U.S.
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Twenty-nine years ago tonight, 11/14/96, our revival of CHICAGO opened on Broadway.
Happy Birthday CHICAGO💙
Happy Birthday CHICAGO💙
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Twenty-nine years ago tonight, 11/14/96, our revival of CHICAGO opened on Broadway.
Happy Birthday CHICAGO💙
Happy Birthday CHICAGO💙
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My new Goes To Show column for American Theatre features Zora Howard's HANG TIME, Richard Thomas in MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, and a list of world premieres this month all across the U.S. www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/14/z...
Zora Howard Wants Art to Shake Us
Plus: Richard Thomas revives Hal Holbrook's 'Mark Twain Tonight,' and a listing of world premieres across the U.S.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My new Goes To Show column for American Theatre features Zora Howard's HANG TIME, Richard Thomas in MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, and a list of world premieres this month all across the U.S. www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/14/z...
Podcast episode drop: Theresa Rebeck discusses the continued gender imbalance in the American theatre and experiences working on iconic projects (including new musical “Working Girl” with Cyndi Lauper).
Theresa Rebeck, Angry Optimist
The Brooklyn-based playwright discusses childhood theatre memories in Cincinnati, the continued gender imbalance in the American theatre, and experiences working on iconic projects.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Podcast episode drop: Theresa Rebeck discusses the continued gender imbalance in the American theatre and experiences working on iconic projects (including new musical “Working Girl” with Cyndi Lauper).
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The touring cast of "Stereophonic" wasn't going to perform in the Bay Area without visiting the Sausalito studio where their show is set — and where Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours."
On Monday, 2025 met 1976 in a totally surreal, beautifully fluid way. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
On Monday, 2025 met 1976 in a totally surreal, beautifully fluid way. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
The ‘Stereophonic’ cast visited Fleetwood Mac’s studio. Here’s what it was like
The touring cast of David Adjmi’s Tony Award-winning play took a trip across the Golden Gate Bridge to 2200 Studios, formerly known as the Record Plant, where Fleetwood Mac recorded “Rumours.”
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November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The touring cast of "Stereophonic" wasn't going to perform in the Bay Area without visiting the Sausalito studio where their show is set — and where Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours."
On Monday, 2025 met 1976 in a totally surreal, beautifully fluid way. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
On Monday, 2025 met 1976 in a totally surreal, beautifully fluid way. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
United Hospital Fund and Venturous Theater Fund have joined in an effort to educate job-to-job arts workers about their health insurance options: a free, comprehensive online guidebook, “Riskier Business.”
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‘Riskier Business’ Guide Aims to Help Arts Workers Navigate Health Insurance
United Hospital Fund and Venturous Theater Fund have joined in an effort to educate job-to-job arts workers about their health insurance options.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
United Hospital Fund and Venturous Theater Fund have joined in an effort to educate job-to-job arts workers about their health insurance options: a free, comprehensive online guidebook, “Riskier Business.”
www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/13/r...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/13/r...
This month’s awards roundup includes directing honors, theatre criticism prizes, commissions for Black playwrights and Theatre for the Very Young, and more.
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Callaway Awards, Medina Prize, Drinking Gourd Playwrights, and More
This month’s awards roundup includes directing honors, theatre criticism prizes, commissions for Black playwrights and Theatre for the Very Young, and more.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This month’s awards roundup includes directing honors, theatre criticism prizes, commissions for Black playwrights and Theatre for the Very Young, and more.
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A special offering in our Offscript feed: Classical Theatre of Harlem presents a monologue by playwright Darnell Lamont Walker about a legendary Harlem crime boss, performed by Keith Randolph Smith.
‘Bumpy Johnson’: A Short Play About the Legendary Crime Boss
As a special offering in our Offscript feed, here's a monologue from playwright Darnell Lamont Walker about the legendary Harlem crime boss, performed by Keith Randolph Smith.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A special offering in our Offscript feed: Classical Theatre of Harlem presents a monologue by playwright Darnell Lamont Walker about a legendary Harlem crime boss, performed by Keith Randolph Smith.
Managing editor Jerald Raymond Pierce interviews Avery Willis Hoffman, Court Theatre’s new artistic director, about theatre classics, her vision for theatre as a cornerstone of civic life, connection with Chicago’s South Side, and joining a Chicago institution.
Avery Willis Hoffman: Leading From Beyond the Stage
Court Theatre's new artistic director talks theatre classics and joining a Chicago institution.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Managing editor Jerald Raymond Pierce interviews Avery Willis Hoffman, Court Theatre’s new artistic director, about theatre classics, her vision for theatre as a cornerstone of civic life, connection with Chicago’s South Side, and joining a Chicago institution.
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It has been an absolutely awful year to be an arts worker and more on that another time, but this write up from @daniellaignacio.bsky.social for @americantheatre.org about @namt.org’s Fall Events week has been a huge part of this week of wins for me.
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Visions of Musical Theatre Futures at NAMT
Reflections on craft, style, new voices, and more at National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s recent fall conference and Festival of New Musicals.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It has been an absolutely awful year to be an arts worker and more on that another time, but this write up from @daniellaignacio.bsky.social for @americantheatre.org about @namt.org’s Fall Events week has been a huge part of this week of wins for me.
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www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/06/v...
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www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/06/v...
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Jordan E. Cooper and Kelundra Smith chatting at the Public in lower Manhattan for @americantheatre.org Offscript Podcast.
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Jordan E. Cooper and Kelundra Smith chatting at the Public in lower Manhattan for @americantheatre.org Offscript Podcast.
From our Fall 2025 print issue, Gabriela Furtado Coutinho shares stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world.
How to Survive a Dictatorship, the Theatre Artist’s Way
Stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world, and how they walk with us today.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
From our Fall 2025 print issue, Gabriela Furtado Coutinho shares stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world.
Your weekend podcast is here! Tune into our latest Offscript episode for convos on new play “Mother of Exiles” and new book “Champions of the Arts.”
Jessica Huang’s Cross-Cultural Love Offering
On this episode we speak to the writer and director of the new play 'Mother of Exiles,' and talk arts funding and community engagement with author Donna Walker-Kuhne.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Your weekend podcast is here! Tune into our latest Offscript episode for convos on new play “Mother of Exiles” and new book “Champions of the Arts.”
This Month in Theatre History features the opening of an all-Black cast revival of “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway, playwright Pauline Phelps’s birth in 1870, a late actor’s skull playing Yorick, and more.
This Month in Theatre History
A notable 1800s female playwright is born, a late 1700s actor's skull plays Yorick, and more.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This Month in Theatre History features the opening of an all-Black cast revival of “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway, playwright Pauline Phelps’s birth in 1870, a late actor’s skull playing Yorick, and more.
This Month in Theatre History features the opening of an all-Black cast revival of “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway, playwright Pauline Phelps’s birth in 1870, a late actor’s skull playing Yorick, and more.
This Month in Theatre History
A notable 1800s female playwright is born, a late 1700s actor's skull plays Yorick, and more.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This Month in Theatre History features the opening of an all-Black cast revival of “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway, playwright Pauline Phelps’s birth in 1870, a late actor’s skull playing Yorick, and more.
In our latest Critical Minded-funded festival piece, contributing editor Daniella Ignacio reports on the recent NAMT conference and showcase, reflecting on craft, style, and new voices in its new musicals.
Visions of Musical Theatre Futures at NAMT
Reflections on craft, style, new voices, and more at National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s recent fall conference and Festival of New Musicals.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In our latest Critical Minded-funded festival piece, contributing editor Daniella Ignacio reports on the recent NAMT conference and showcase, reflecting on craft, style, and new voices in its new musicals.
Our November Entrances and Exits roundup includes visionary artistic directors’ departures, new execs at summer play festivals, and other comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
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Leadership Changes at Long Wharf, St. Louis Shakes, and More
Visionary artistic directors’ departures, new execs at summer play festivals, and other comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our November Entrances and Exits roundup includes visionary artistic directors’ departures, new execs at summer play festivals, and other comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
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www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/06/l...
As Thornton Wilder enters the American musical theatre canon with THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS at the Public, Shoshana Greenberg explores attempts by legends to musicalize the classic play, the team that could in Ethan Lipton and Leigh Silverman, and how it brings the original’s absurdities closer to home.
Something Wilder in Ethan Lipton’s ‘Seat of Our Pants’
A new musical based on Thornton Wilder's 1942 epic ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ aims to bring the original’s absurdities closer to home.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
As Thornton Wilder enters the American musical theatre canon with THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS at the Public, Shoshana Greenberg explores attempts by legends to musicalize the classic play, the team that could in Ethan Lipton and Leigh Silverman, and how it brings the original’s absurdities closer to home.
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Nov. 5, 1925: Italian playwright and producer Luigi Pirandello rehearses his actors for a staging of his drama "Henry IV" in Berlin.
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Nov. 5, 1925: Italian playwright and producer Luigi Pirandello rehearses his actors for a staging of his drama "Henry IV" in Berlin.
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I'm covering all the good plays this week about women. First: Liberation, where playwright Bess Wohl was told it would never see the light of day because there were too many women in it and it was too long. What a fool, the person who said that
Bess Wohl Was Once Told Liberation Was Unproduceable. Now It's on Broadway
Directed by Whitney White, Liberation is a 2.5-hour epic about women doing something radical: talking about their lives.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'm covering all the good plays this week about women. First: Liberation, where playwright Bess Wohl was told it would never see the light of day because there were too many women in it and it was too long. What a fool, the person who said that
You’ve seen heist movies, but what about a heist play? For the fall 2025 print issue, managing editor Jerald Raymond Pierce reports on a U.S. premiere at Arizona Theatre Company that turns the challenge into an advantage.
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Getting Away With It in ‘Heist’
You've seen heist movies, but what about a heist play? A U.S. premiere at Arizona Theatre Company turns the challenge into an advantage.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
You’ve seen heist movies, but what about a heist play? For the fall 2025 print issue, managing editor Jerald Raymond Pierce reports on a U.S. premiere at Arizona Theatre Company that turns the challenge into an advantage.
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www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/05/g...
Nearly 4 decades ago, Philip Kan Gotanda’s play YANKEE DAWG YOU DIE tackled Hollywood’s Asian American stereotypes. For our fall print issue, Ashley Lee reported on a recent L.A. revival at East West Players that hit different, for better and worse.
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www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/04/a...
A ‘Dawg’ That Still Bites
Nearly 4 decades ago, Philip Kan Gotanda’s play tackled Hollywood’s Asian American stereotypes. A recent L.A. revival hit different, for better and worse.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nearly 4 decades ago, Philip Kan Gotanda’s play YANKEE DAWG YOU DIE tackled Hollywood’s Asian American stereotypes. For our fall print issue, Ashley Lee reported on a recent L.A. revival at East West Players that hit different, for better and worse.
www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/04/a...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/04/a...
A partnership between Pink Fang and Hunter College will culminate in a full-day gathering in December, with conversations, screenings, and activations around Ping Chong’s archive and legacy.
Pink Fang Celebrates Ping Chong’s Legacy With Archival Symposium
A semester-long partnership with Hunter College will culminate in a full-day gathering in December, with conversations, screenings, and archival activations.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A partnership between Pink Fang and Hunter College will culminate in a full-day gathering in December, with conversations, screenings, and activations around Ping Chong’s archive and legacy.
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Something churchy has been afoot in New York's theaters this fall:
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Has Theater Become Everybody’s Church?
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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Something churchy has been afoot in New York's theaters this fall:
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How did Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck turn ‘Working Girl' into a musical (at La Jolla through Nov. 30)? By focusing on the absurdities of 1980s work culture and continuing inequalities.
A ‘Working Girl’ Who Just Wants to Have Fun (and Break Glass Ceilings)
Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck's new musical at La Jolla Playhouse, based on the hit film, eyes the absurdities of the 1980s work culture—and the inequalities that are still with us.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
How did Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck turn ‘Working Girl' into a musical (at La Jolla through Nov. 30)? By focusing on the absurdities of 1980s work culture and continuing inequalities.