The cancellation came after a parent told school board members that she was worried about her 5-year-old daughter’s upcoming field trip to see the play, in which male actors play female characters. - Washington Post
Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were A Doll's House, Leopoldstadt, and Ain't No Mo' with six nominations each. - Variety
"I learned from my theater community that Sondheim was the goal, and that if you get the opportunity to do Sondheim, you take it, no matter what time and space and place it is." - Los Angeles Times
"It's an inherently dramatic device — because a letter is both a vessel for self-expression and a catalyst for a response. Suspense swirls around what that response might be, and often whether one will arrive at all." - The New York Times
"It's a delicate experiment in what happens when we really try and tune in to local audiences rather than just deliver the same product around the country, which is what we normally do." - BBC
Several companies in the Bay Area have been finding real advantages in these models: without a single, well-paid executive, the remaining staffers can be paid better; limited tenures for programming and casting directors keep companies from falling back on the same playwrights and actors; and so on. - San Francisco Chronicle
The Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio "will be led by a Head of New Musical Theatre, who will commission, develop and produce new musicals in collaboration with creatives and partners." - WhatsOnStage (London)
Without the weight – cultural as well as literal – of the collected edition, it’s possible few would care about these surviving plays. Something similar happened to other playwrights of the period, whose work was not given the authority of a collection. - The Conversation
"Hana S. Sharif, artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and a former staffer with organizations in Hartford, Boston and Baltimore, takes over from Molly Smith, who is retiring after a quarter-century in the top job at one of the nation's cornerstone regional theaters." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"Maugham is a deeply deceptive dramatist. His plays look as if they are dated old crowdpleasers, yet often challenge conventional ideas. … This is the man who in For Services Rendered … wrote a blistering attack on the ruinous aftermath of the first world war and a society unfit for heroes." - The Guardian
The economic viability of graduate programs is becoming an increasingly complicated question. The majority of MFA theatre programs offer tuition remission, housing, and stipends, but with inflation ramping up, the cost of supporting students is rising. - American Theatre
“There’s been a drag on finances for some time,” Muse said, noting the problems had not been addressed over a multi-year period. “There were mistakes that were made … It (the festival) was run as a mom-and-pop operation, and there’s nothing wrong with that when it works.” - Ashland News
"For centuries, skilled Iranian storytellers known as Naqqals have transfixed audiences in traditional coffeehouses" - but it was always an art by men, and for men only. Gordafarid "is the first known female Naqqal to have learned the craft the traditional way." - Los Angeles Times
Ruby Aiyo Gerber to her mom: "For so long, I rebelled against wanting to be a writer, fearing that admiring any part of you was to be forever in your shadow. I had a lot of fear when starting the collaboration." - The New York Times
World Premiere Wisconsin was born in 2019 with three goals - connecting theatres, raising national awareness, and commissioning new work. Then came the pandemic, and "a fourth festival goal was added: to communicate a positive story ... during a critical phase of recovery and rebuilding." - American Theatre
