The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Announces New Leadership And Call For 2026-27 Submissions
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 12, 2025
The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival at the Dobbins Conservatory of Southeast Missouri State University has new leadership: Co-Artistic Directors Charles Goforth and Tim Nicolai and Managing Director Lisa Fischel. Kenneth L. Stilson returns in the capacity of Founding Executive Director. Former Artistic Director Kitt Lavoie departs after shepherding the festival from an idea to five successful seasons and a national profile.
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT to be Presented at Hendersonville Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 23, 2025
Hendersonville Theatre will preset the Western North Carolina premiere of Terms of Endearment, a heartfelt tale that captures the fierce, fragile, and fiercely funny ties between a mother and daughter. Learn more!
HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Teen Edition to Open At Live Arts in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 7, 2023
The Live Arts Teen Summer Musical returns with a darkly funny and slyly subversive musical for summer 2023! HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Teen Edition is written and composed by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, based on the 1980s cult classic film.
NPTC and Banana Boat Productions Reprise THE RITUAL For 40th Anniversary
by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2019
NPTC and Banana Boat Productions are reprising their powerful production of The Ritual by noted Trinidadian playwright Zeno Obi Constance at New Perspectives Studio, 458 West 37th Street (@10th Avenue.) This limited-run production celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Constance's ground-breaking play which caused a stir in 1979 when it was aired live on Trinidadian television-and then blacked out in the middle of the broadcast because it was perceived to be too shocking. Performances are June 19 - 30, 2019 , Weds - Sat @7:30pm, Sundays @4pm..
The Kennedy Center Announces 50th KCACTF National Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 9, 2019
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts more than 120 outstanding theater students from colleges and universities across the nation as part of the 50th annual Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which runs April 16-20, 2019 in multiple locations throughout the Center. The Center also announced the national awardees for the KCACTF. Selected awardees and representatives will be brought to Washington, D.C. for an expense-paid trip to participate in the National Festival. These student artists from across the United States have been recognized for their outstanding work from the eight regional festivals that were held January 8 through February 28, 2019.
The South Florida Theatre League Presents Theatrical Intimacy Education Workshop
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 20, 2018
Theatrical Intimacy Education imparts directors, performers, production designers/crew/management and teaching artists/educators with the knowledge and tools for approaching sensitive material (for stage, film, and television) safely and ethically. In this workshop, participants will learn best practices for discussing and staging intimate content in class, rehearsal, and coaching without sacrificing creative vision and maintaining the joy of the creative process.
BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA Opens Tonight at SFA
by BWW News Desk - Apr 23, 2013
Unusual production elements will be evident when 'bobrauschenbergamerica' opens at 7:30 tonight in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.