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Today: Sir John MacDermott, a former Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland, is 93; Lord Lloyd of Berwick, a former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 91; Prof Sir Alistair [...]

JUDE Kelly, the founder of Women of the World Festival, is leading a review to try to prevent the coronavirus crisis disproportionately affecting women in the arts, as previous crises [...]

TEHRAN -- Tehran theaters resume their regular schedule with seven new plays after the 38th Fajr International Theater Festival last week. Shahrzad Theater will host director Reza Javidi's troupe, which [...]

TEHRAN -- The Titowak Theater Group led by Iranian director Ebrahim Poshtkuhi is competing in the 38th Fajr International Theater Festival with a loose adaptation of English playwright William Shakespeare's [...]

When Kate Hamill first met Jason O'Connell there was an immediate spark that neither could act on. He later went from being her leading man to her real-life beau. Kate [...]

Byline: Steve Dow Star Rating: 4 stars The revival of Jimmy Chi's musical Bran Nue Dae, which has opened in Sydney before a national tour 30 years after its premiere, [...]

Jeremy O. Harris will combine disciplines in a summer festival. Jeremy O. Harris, who wrote the acclaimed and provocative ''Slave Play,'' will be a curator of the High Line's 2020 [...]

Byline: Kayla Butera Lights, camera, (virtual) action. Starting on Oct. 30, the Tufts Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies screened three plays in its Fall Festival of Plays. Grounded [...]

Athens, Ohio -- The following information was released by Ohio University: Author: Staff reports Ohio University's LGBT Center and Women's Center are among the co-sponsors for the virtual Trans [Plays] [...]

At 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, a calendar notification popped up on my screen: 'Now Happening: 'Cheryl Robs a Bank: An Evening of Dramatic Entertainm...'' arbitrarily cut off by [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO -- The following information was released by Washington University in St. Louis: Aspiring playwrights (virtually) debut new work Oct. 16 and 17 By Liam Otten 'You need [...]

NEW YORK, Aug 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- AudienceView's consumer platform and online community, TheaterMania, is excited to announce the expansion of its inaugural Young Playwrights Contest into [...]

Play by Kharkiv playwright Ternovyi chosen for reading at Next Stage Europe festival in Germany KYIV. June 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The play by the playwright and actor of Kharkiv Theater [...]

Byline: Alex Deryn Bloomington Playwrights Project is located at 107 W. 9th St. The Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Adirondack Theatre Festival will present a series of interactive virtual experiences [...]

Athens, Ohio -- The following information was released by Ohio University: The Alliance Theatre announced that School of Theater playwright Inna Tsyrlin's 'Stitched with a Sickle and a Hammer' is [...]

Byline: Michaela Drouillard Walking past Segal's, the beloved Saint-Laurent grocery store, you may have noticed the phrase '#FringeBuzz' plastered to the windows on the second floor. Behind those windows is [...]

Byline: Lily Roby COVID-19 has caused countless disruptions in coursework for both Ohio University faculty and students, but one group that has had an especially difficult time transitioning to online [...]

Byline: Lizzie Kaboski Snow falls Jan. 24 around the Lee Norville Theatre and Drama Center. The 'At First Sight' new play festival will feature two plays by MFA playwrights Kaela [...]

Summary: Celebrated filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright Christiaan Olwagen chats to Daniel Dercksen about bringing Poppie Nongena to life on film.. Celebrated filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright Christiaan Olwagen chats to Daniel [...]

This year's University of Pittsburgh Mainstage lineup is filled with award-winning writers and highly lauded works. A Broadway musical from a Tony Award-winning writer and a play from a Pulitzer [...]

Byline: MARSHA LEDERMAN, Staff VANCOUVER -- Lead Marcus Youssef, the Siminovitch Prize-winning playwright who is based in Vancouver, was in the audience at Ontario's Stratford Festival this summer when he [...]

Inua Ellams discusses his surprise hit play, which has its New York premiere at the Next Wave Festival this week. LONDON -- A few years ago, Broadway etiquette mavens were [...]

While expressing their commitment at the launch of first batch of 11 young and dynamic professionals and activists from the up and downstream the Mountain Ambassadors pledged to take up [...]

Byline: Kristina Serafini Nov. 17-- Nov. 17--Walking through the hallways at J.E. Harrison Middle School, Ava Weidensall noticed a flier for City Theatre's Young Playwrights contest. She had to know [...]

Zlin, South Moravia, Nov 14 (CTK) - Former Slovak president Andrej Kiska and the Prague-seated Vaclav Havel Library head Michael Zantovsky unveiled a Vaclav Havel bench in Zlin today, another [...]

TEHRAN -- Danish playwright and stage director Sȹren Valente Ovesen is holding workshops on children's theater in Tehran during a three-day program organized by the Institute for Intellectual Development of [...]

Gemma Bodinetz, artistic director, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, 53; Rehman Chishti MP, 41; Sir Terence Conran, designer, writer, retailer and restaurateur, 88; Peter Florence, founder and director, Hay Festival, [...]

Pursukoon Karachi announces 'SHEHER-E-FUNN', a two-day free entry Children's Festival on September 28 and 29, 2019 (for ages 5 - 15 yrs.). Through interactive, creatively designed activities, the aim is [...]

Pursukoon Karachi announces 'SHEHER-E-FUNN', a two-day free entry Children's Festival on September 28 and 29, 2019 (for ages 5 - 15 yrs.). Through interactive, creatively designed activities, the aim is [...]

Byline: Lisa Rand A festival celebrating the work of black and ethnic minority artists from Liverpool and beyond will take place across the city centre in September. Blackfest returns for [...]

EDINBURGH -- The weather has cooled since a Europe-wide heat wave brought record temperatures here last month. But climate change is still on people's minds. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, [...]

Byline: Ayesha Hazarika PLAYWRIGHT James Graham, who wrote the part of Dominic Cummings played by Benedict Cumberbatch in Brexit: the Uncivil War, said he felt a responsibility to represent Cummings [...]

EDINBURGH -- The weather has cooled since a Europe-wide heat wave brought record temperatures here last month. But climate change is still on people's minds. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead Although the new one-hander from the Cree performer-playwright Cliff Cardinal is called Cliff Cardinal's CBC Special, it neither airs nor streams on that broadcaster's platforms. [...]

Byline: Bert Osborne Here's hoping that Ben Thorpe doesn't have any plans to quit his so-called 'day job' as one of Atlanta's most engaging actors ( 'Hand to God' at [...]

Byline: Sam Steiner Day one As I write this, squashed into the armpit of a city worker on the Central line in London, I am -- on balance -- terrified. [...]

Byline: Interview by Kathryn Bromwich Poet and playwright Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London with his family as a child. In 2009 his debut [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK, Staff Lead Graham Isador, whose new drama about online abuse and offline violence White Heat is about to premiere at Toronto's SummerWorks Performance Festival, started thinking [...]

After watching a performance of the Shaw Festival's ''Brigadoon,'' the streets of this magical town on Lake Ontario might seem like a real-life version of the Scottish village depicted in [...]