Clare Barron News

Anvil Theatre will present The Search Party’s production of Dance Nation by Clare Barron, running November 13–23, 2025, in New Westminster, BC.

Yale Schwarzman Center announced that it will produce a staged reading of Ariel Stess's KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA, the winner of the 2025 Yale Drama Series Prize.

Refracted Theatre Company has revealed the final two plays as part of the The Shortlist: A Refracted Festival at the Den Theatre. Learn more about the festival here!

Invitation Theater Company will present a staged reading of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody at Gibney Dance on October 4, 2025. Directed by Justin Cimino.

The 17th annual Bring A Weasel and A Pint of Your Own Blood Festival will take place this year at the recently reopened Life World in September. Learn more here!

Toronto's COAL MINE THEATRE has unveiled its 2025/26 season.  The season gets underway in September with Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece, WAITING FOR GODOT. See the full lineup here!

Audiences are invited on an odyssey into the mystery and splendour of Blindness in this multidisciplinary world premiere by Outside the March Theatre in co-production with The National Ballet of Canada and Peripheral Theatre. Learn more!

The Department of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara will present Dance Nation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron, a funny and deeply moving play that captures the raw ambition and emotional complexity of adolescence.

Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb will present the complete line-up for the 28th SUMMERWORKS festival of new plays.

Clubbed Thumb will present a one-week extension for the return engagement of Deep Blue Sound, written by Abe Koogler and directed by Arin Arbus. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Playwrights Horizons has announced Noah Silva as the organization's new General Manager, with Carol Fishman departing the role after 17 impactful years.

Experiments In Opera has announced the world premiere of SOLOperas, two back-to-back operas written for and inspired by the self-accompanying solo performer.

Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb has announced additional casting for Deep Blue Sound, written by Abe Koogler (Staff Meal) and directed by Arin Arbus (Waiting For Godot).

Returning to Adelaide Fringe in 2025, Confessions of a Boba Liberalist is an attempt to prove that Nita is in fact NOT Boba Liberal and an answer (or not) to the dreaded question “where are you from?”.

SkirtsAfire has announced their 2025 MainStage production, Dance Nation written by Clare Barron, March 6 - 16 at Gateway Theatre (8529 Gateway Blvd NW).

Vineyard Theatre has revealed the recipients of the 2024-2025 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and Colman Domingo Award. Learn more about the award and the recipients!

Page 73 has announced 13 semifinalists for the 2025 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Now in its 22nd year, the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship is the company's most prestigious award.

Clubbed Thumb will present a return engagement of Deep Blue Sound, written by Abe Koogler and directed by Arin Arbus. Learn more about the engagement starring Maryann Plunkett and see how to purchase tickets.

Broadway World loves it when companies produce shows that take risks unapologetically. Several times now the Actors Theatre of Little Rock has left me speechless and proud at the same time, and this is one of those moments with their production of DANCE NATION, which was presented Oct. 30 through Nov. 9 at the Quapaw Methodist Church. Similar to the show Dance Moms but taken to a whole new level, this show probes into the intense, complicated lives of 13-year-old dancers and explores the brutal yet exhilarating process of discovering who they are and what they want.  

Playwrights Horizons  has renamed its Mainstage Theater the Judith O. Rubin Theater,.