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The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College has announced Gridthiya Gaweewong as the recipient of its 2025 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence.

ATG Entertainment has acquired touring Broadway presenter Celebrity Attractions.

As the year winds down, this week’s stories reflect a season of change, opportunity, and challenges in the theatre world.

Atlantic Theater Company has unveiled its Judith Champion Launch Commissioning Program writers for 2024, Stephen Brown, Stefani Kuo, and Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke.

The Entertainment Community Fund and Playwrights Horizons revealed that New York City creator and performer Alex Tatarsky is the 2024 recipient of The Mark O’Donnell Prize.

Nagle Jackson, internationally renowned theater director and playwright, has passed away in Rhinebeck, New York, at the age of 88.

Launched in 2020, the Performing Arts Grant program supports regional non-profit arts organizations in the development and presentation of innovative, high-quality performing arts projects.

Patrick Hoffman, The New York Public Library’s Curator and Director of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Billy Rose Theatre Division, is retiring after a career of more than three decades at NYPL.

The Rink is now available for licensing from Concord Theatricals.

The new musical Alice in Neverland will host an industry reading at New 42 Studios on  Thursday, December 12, 2024, in New York City.

Workshop presentations of TheaterWorksUSA's new musical Stuntboy, In the Meantime will take place this month.

Theater Resources Unlimited is now in its fourth year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings this Friday, having offered to date over 200 conversations.

The Broadway League has revealed the three recipients of the 2024 Broadway League Leadership Awards that were presented during the League’s Annual Meeting.

The Board of Directors of the Stage Managers’ Association Foundation (SMAF) voted, at its November, 2024, meeting, to change its name.

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 12/8/2024.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International announced the acquisition of the heart-filled Broadway musical How to Dance in Ohio.

The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art has announced the opening of new offices and studio facilities in New York City in a move that will bring its industry-leading training to the United States.

GOTO GOTO Studio in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications llc will bring to New York an industry presentation of the regional cast of Charles Evered's CLASS directed and starring Ben Atkinson with Eliza Banaszak.

Leadership transformations and financial strategies are reshaping the theater world, with new leaders like Alisha Tonsic at TCG and Jan Svendsen Weiss launching ACTivate4Good to drive innovation and social impact.

Lori Hotz, a senior executive with a track record of leadership, innovation, and breakthrough business results, has joined ATG Entertainment's senior leadership team as North American CEO.

Circa’s Artistic Director and CEO Yaron Lifschitz has been announced as the recipient of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) 2025 Distinguished Artist Award.

Caring for the Dead, a provocative new play by Kati Schwartz, will have a private industry reading at Open Jar Studios in December.

SPARK Theatricals has announced an exclusive industry presentation of hop ThA A, a new play by James Anthony Tyler.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, has announced the selection of Alisha Tonsic as Co-Executive Director of National Operations and Business Development.

The full cast has been announced for Amas Musical Theatre's developmental readings of Call Me From the Grave, a new musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Romano, and book by Harold Hodge, Jr.