Terry Guest News

Williamston Theatre has announced its 18th season with an exciting lineup of new productions and returning favorites, offering a diverse range of theatrical experiences for audiences.

Katie Ka Vang and Theater Mu today were announced as recipients of the Joyce Foundation’s 2024 Joyce Awards, receiving a landmark grant of $100,000 to support a new commission, including $30,000 allocated for an artist stipend.

Children's Theatre Company has announced the availability of single tickets for their 2024-2025 season, featuring a variety of performances and artist photos.

Chicago Children's Theatre has announced two world premieres for the 2024-25 season: MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD and GO DOG GO! VE PERRO ¡VE!.

Discover the exciting lineup for Goodman Theatre's Summer 2024 season, featuring a mix of classic plays, contemporary works, and world premieres. Enjoy diverse and dynamic performances all summer long.

Making its World Premiere, OAK is presented at our own Urbanite Theater. When entering the black-box space random hip-hop music is playing, but on closer observance, everything is placed with intention. The mix of music used throughout the story, from old TLC through Tyla’s current Billboard hit Water, made it hard to place what time this story is set, the 90’s, 2020’s? The elusiveness of this is effective, as this could be any southern town, even today. Playwright Terry Guest, a 3-time Jeff Award winner, expands his talents with this Southern Gothic Horror that was commissioned by Urbanite Theatre in 2020 and was created and designed specifically with the Sarasota audience in mind.

Urbanite Theatre’s milestone tenth season is set to close with the world premiere of OAK, directed by Mikael Burke (May 31-June 30, 2024).

The Jeff Awards has announce the opening of submissions for the 2024 Jeff Impact Fellowship Awards, aimed at inspiring early to mid-career artists of color in the Chicago theater industry.

Children’s Theatre Company has announced the 2024-2025 Season of six productions. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Paul Michael Thomson's newest dramedy BROTHER SISTER CYBORG SPACE, now receiving its world premiere at Raven Theatre, occasionally loses itself in a flood of introspection. But it's buoyed along by a cast of thoughtful and charismatic performers.

Williamston Theatre has announced that it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $15,000.

What did our critic think of AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN at Dobama? Dobama bills itself as the area’s Off-Broadway theatre.  It is “dedicated to premiering important new plays by established and emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality.

AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN Comes Home to Georgia at Out Front Theatre Company. Georgia's only LGBTQIA+ professional theatre company presents the Georgia Premiere of Terry Guest's play, honoring a drag star's life and legacy. Don't miss this celebration filled with laughter and tears.

Dobama Theatre's 2023/24 mainstage season continues with the Ohio Premiere of AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN by Terry Guest and directed by Preston Crowder. The production runs January 26 - February 18, 2024 at Dobama, Cleveland's Off-Broadway Theatre.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat has revealed new programs throughout the months of January and February.

About Face Theatre’s Re/Generation Studio workshop series returns to kick off the company’s 2023-2024 season from November 30 through December 16, 2023 at The Den Theatre.

Discover the cast and creative team behind the highly anticipated world premiere of THE SALVAGERS by Harrison David Rivers. Get all the details on this exciting new production.

Learn about the newly introduced Jeff Impact Fellowships by The Jeff Awards, which aim to honor and celebrate the achievements of inspiring multi-hyphenate artists of color. Discover how these inaugural fellowships are recognizing and supporting diversity in the arts industry.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat announces a newly developed partnership with Nathan Benderson Park as a part of the Hermitage's 2023-2024 season. Expanding on the success of the Hermitage programming at Selby Gardens and other venues throughout the region, the new “Hermitage Sunsets @ Benderson Park” series launches this year following a popular Hermitage program at the park last season.

Chicago's Raven Theatre Company today announced the cast and production team for the World Premiere of Paul Michael Thomson's brother sister cyborg space, set to run February 12 - March 17, 2024.