Stephen Richard News

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld for 1/27/2022 include new jobs for those looking to work in the theatre industry.

With formal productions still hindered by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is thrilled to announce their first-ever Sweat 4 MET 5K to support the theatre.

Under the leadership of Board President Beth Newbold and Managing Director James McNeel, the City Theatre Board of Directors has concluded an extensive national search, naming Marc Masterson the new Artistic Director of the region's largest theater dedicated solely to new plays. Masterson brings decades of experience and an award-winning national presence as a champion of new works, having served as the artistic director of South Coast Repertory Theatre (2011-2018) and Actors Theatre of Louisville, home of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays (2000-2011), two of the most distinguished arts institutions in the nation. He was City Theatre's producing artistic director from 1981-2000.

The Board of Directors of Baltimore Center Stage and Kwame Kwei-Armah jointly announced today that Kwei-Armah will leave his position as artistic director at the end of his contract on June 30, 2018.

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As the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, BroadwayWorld has been in touch with the award-winning creative team that put together the hit musical years ago. In the interview below, composer George Stiles, lyricist Anthony Drewe, choreographer Stephen Mear and director Richard Eyre chat about how they got involved with the show, reveal some of thier favorite Poppins memories, and share what being a part of the magic has meant to them.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith announced that the Board of Trustees has appointed Edgar Dobie as the new Managing Director of the theater. With roots in non-profit theater management in the U.S. and Canada, Dobie is a Tony Award-winning commercial producer who will begin with Arena Stage at the end of March.

Arena Stage held a groundbreaking ceremony today to officially commence construction on its 47-year-old theater campus in Southwest, D.C. This expansion and renovation will make way for the new Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, a three-theater facility dedicated to the development and production of American theater

Arena Stage, under the leadership of Artistic Director Molly Smith and Executive Director Stephen Richard, and the Georgetown Theater Program have developed a partnership to enrich the future of American theater through collaboratively hosting artists and developmental play workshops, involving Arena artists as faculty, and providing mentoring for students in professional settings as well as in community outreach programs.