Lila Rachel Becker News

Luna Stage has announced casting for the World Premiere of Westphalia by Helen Banner, directed by Lila Rachel Becker. Find out who is starring in the show here!

The Civilians has announced programming for its 20th anniversary season which includes a return to in-person events. The season, running December 13, 2021 – June 6, 2022, celebrates the vital and necessary human connections that have made The Civilians thrive for two decades.

The Civilians is presenting the newest members of The R&D Group, marking the Group’s 11th season. The R&D Group is comprised of playwrights, composers, and directors who work together as a writing group for nine months to develop new plays and musicals.

The Tank announced today the return of their eco-forward festivals, TrashFest and DarkFest, from Friday July 30 – Monday August 9, 2021. For years, The Tank has hosted DarkFest - a week of shows that does not use conventional theatrical lighting in an effort to reexamine how we can make theater more sustainable.

The Jewish Plays Project has announced the acting company of the 10th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. The ten works feature acclaimed actors including Clea Alsip (M. Butterfly, Nantucket Sleigh Ride), Gus Birney (Dickinson, The Mist), Twinkle Burke (Gotham, Bull), Grantham Coleman (The Great Society, Much Ado About Nothing), and more.

The Jewish Plays Project has announced its second annual digital contest as part of the 10th Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest. The contest opens on April 15th.

BWW catches up with Eric Marlin and Lila Rachel Becker to chat about bringing Bad Things Happen Here to the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Artistic Director Les Waters has introduced the 2016-2017 Professional Training Company (formally known as the Apprentice/Intern Company).

Des Moines Performing Arts, in partnership with THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY national tour and the Madison County Chamber of Commerce, welcome Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky, who star as Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid in THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY's national tour. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations, is famously set in Iowa and will launch its national tour at the Des Moines Civic Center November 28 - December 5. Check out photos from the opening night below!

Summer in DC brings great opportunities to celebrate and discover new plays, the first of which is CulturalDC's Source Festival, which opened June 5 and runs through June 28 with varied offerings of full-length plays, 10-minute plays and artistic blind dates. Based on Love & Botany, a collection of six 10-minute plays, the Source Festival gives audiences a refreshing range of voices riffing on the intersection of relationships and plant life with plays taking us from a backyard garden to across the universe.

The Seeing Space, a new theatrical collaborative founded by Lila Rachel Becker, Aislinn Frantz, Patti Miller, and Caitlin Weisensee, will be presenting Moments of Inertia, an evening of two one-act plays that tell the story of characters trying to maintain stability while the world around them spins out of control.

The Seeing Space, a new theatrical collaborative founded by Lila Rachel Becker, Aislinn Frantz, Patti Miller, and Caitlin Weisensee, will be presenting Moments of Inertia, an evening of two one-act plays that tell the story of characters trying to maintain stability while the world around them spins out of control.