Stratford Festival announces 12 shows for 2026 season

www.thestar.com: In his final act as artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Antoni Cimolino will direct a fresh revival of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and a brand new adaptation of the Neapolitan comedy “Saturday, Sunday, Monday.”

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Announces New Managing Director

www.citybeat.com: There will soon be a fresh face at the Playhouse in the Park as the theater has appointed a new managing director. Abby Marcus — currently the managing director of the Orchard Project "performance laboratory" in Saratoga Springs, New York — will be taking over for Buzz Ward when he retires in July. Ward will become Managing Director Emeritus as of July 1.

Searching a Way Forward

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Last autumn, during a plenary at the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Fall Forum, there was a presentation about the impact of the Great Recession on theatres. A lot of smart people spoke, including a researcher and an investment broker. They told attendees: These are the good days... The sun is shining, the market is great, things are as good as they can get.

Op-Ed: The Nonprofit Theater Industry Can't Just Do the Bare Minimum Anymore

TheaterMania: There's this concern I have. And as a professional audience member, it's been on my mind a lot lately. I'm concerned that the nonprofit theater industry won't learn. In the decade that I've covered theater, I see that the industry has become content with patting itself on the back and making gestures — but it hasn't learned.

Regional Spotlight: How Trinity Rep is Working Through The Global Health Crisis

www.broadwayworld.com: Now more than ever it is important to support theater and do our part to keep the art form that we love so much alive and as thriving as it can be during these unprecedented times. While the global health crisis has temporarily put the theater world on hold, pausing all live performances and large gatherings to help stop the spread of COVID-19, theaters around the country have taken a hit.

Regional Stories, Regional Artists, Regional Audiences

HowlRound Theatre Commons: I grew up in rural Missouri and went to college in the Midwest. While I participated in high school theatre, the idea of attending performances in New York (which felt then, as it still does in some ways, like the center of the theatrical universe) was not an option I could consider until well into my college career. Because of regional theatres in St. Louis and other midwestern cities, however, I was able to see a number of live productions at student matinees and with rush tickets. Without those theatres, I would have had little opportunity to engage with live performance before attending college, and my parents, who still live in the small town where I grew up, might never have seen a professional production.

Two River Theater expanding its footprint and booking as it turns 25

Theater Cues: Two River Theater Company, a regional non-profit theater in New Jersey with a national reputation for staging excellent productions, appears to be expanding its offerings with booking a comic and a film festival in the “off-season.”

Please Stop Giving Absolutely Everything a Standing Ovation

Houstonia: The Alley Theatre’s world premiere of Cleo features a great story—the sizzling affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of the 1963 movie Cleopatra in Rome—along with sumptuous staging and stellar acting.

But is it worth a standing ovation?

Tony Awards 2018: La MaMa to Receive Regional Theater Award

Variety: La MaMa E.T.C., the downtown Manhattan theater that was one of the major birthplaces of the Off Off Broadway scene, will receive the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award.

Atlanta-Grown Playwrights Welcome (Here)

Breaking Character: In October of 2016, the Dramatists Guild sent out a press release about a new program called Playwrights Welcome, which offered “available tickets that would otherwise go unsold to DG members on the day of the performance free of charge.” As the DG Atlanta Regional Rep, I knew that for many of our local members this was like scratching a lottery ticket and finding a pay number. But the program had a more elevated — call it an investment in the artistic future of theatre by providing writers/composers an important tool in learning their craft.

La Jolla Playhouse names Debby Buchholz as new managing director

The San Diego Union-Tribune: In her nearly 16 years as La Jolla Playhouse general manager, Debby Buchholz has been part of some significant history — from the launch of the smash-hit musical “Jersey Boys” in 2004 to the current Broadway success of the Playhouse-bred “Come From Away.”