More than 200 theater writers – playwrights, composers, lyricists, librettists – have joined a nationwide letter writing campaign urging the incoming Biden-Harris Administration to prioritize its commitment to an arts community ravaged by Covid-19. Among other goals, many of the letters urge the administration to create a Department and Secretary of Arts & Culture.
Organized by the non-partisan grassroots coalition Be An #ArtsHero in partnership with The Dramatists Guild of America, the “Dear Mr. President and Madam Vice President” campaign asserts that “the Arts are vital to our nation’s soul and our collective humanity, as well as being an essential driver of the economy.”
Among those writing letters: Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown), Heidi Schreck (What The Constitution Means To Me) as well as V (formerly Eve Ensler), Craig Lucas, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Marsha Norman, Lynn Ahrens, Zakiyyah Alexander, Jaclyn Backhaus, Bekah Brunstetter, Carla Ching, Vichet Chum, Paul Downs Colaizzo,...
Organized by the non-partisan grassroots coalition Be An #ArtsHero in partnership with The Dramatists Guild of America, the “Dear Mr. President and Madam Vice President” campaign asserts that “the Arts are vital to our nation’s soul and our collective humanity, as well as being an essential driver of the economy.”
Among those writing letters: Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play), Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown), Heidi Schreck (What The Constitution Means To Me) as well as V (formerly Eve Ensler), Craig Lucas, Theresa Rebeck, Sarah Ruhl, Marsha Norman, Lynn Ahrens, Zakiyyah Alexander, Jaclyn Backhaus, Bekah Brunstetter, Carla Ching, Vichet Chum, Paul Downs Colaizzo,...
- 1/14/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
May and June episodes will feature Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and actor Elizabeth Stanley on their collaboration during Jagged Little Pill Tony-winning director Michael Mayer with actors Jonathan Groff and Christian Borle on Little Shop of Horrors directors Lileana Blain-Cruz, Sheryl Kaller, and Desdemona Chiang director Gaye Taylor Upchurch and playwright Lauren Gunderson on The Half-Life of Marie Curie and more.
- 5/7/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Roughly two months ago American Theatre announced that for the second time in the past three seasons, Lauren Gunderson has topped their list of the most-produced playwrights in the country, her 33 professional productions among the 385 Theatre Communications Group's member theatres easily surpassing second place finisher Lauren Yee's 18, Tennessee Williams' 17 and more than doubling the totals of August Wilson and Neil Simon. She came in at 2 on last year's list after her first 1 finish the year before. For the record, Shakespeare, who would surely rank 1 every season, is excluded.
- 11/30/2019
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Plenty of creative gigs are available in smaller acting markets to start your fall off right. In Lexington, Kentucky, an Equity production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” is seeking union and nonunion talent for several lead roles. Or discover a new hidden talent and perform as a Freddie Mercury lookalike in Chicago. Whatever your talent, Backstage has plenty of opportunities for you. Utah Shakespeare Festival 2019 Season, Cedar CITYJoin the Utah Shakespeare Festival for its upcoming season, which will include “Book of Will” ( written by Lauren Gunderson), “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night,” “Hamlet,” “The Conclusion of Henry VI pt. 2 and 3,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice), “Every Brilliant Thing” (written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe), and Arthur Miller’s “The Price.” The festival is seeking male and female Equity actors, aged 18 and older. There will be an Equity principal audition on Sept. 24. Four...
- 9/6/2018
- backstage.com
You don’t have to be a Broadway baby to scratch your onstage acting itch. In fact, all around the country—and outside of it—there are bustling theater communities producing works so vibrant they’d have Edward Albee rolling over in his grave. Want in on that action? You’d be wise to know the ins and outs of industry happenings, and this is a good place to start: From across the pond and back again, here is the week’s biggest regional theater news. A Stark will take to the stage.Maisie Williams, best-known for her role as Arya Stark on HBO’s hit “Game of Thrones,” has set her sights on the theater. Williams will make her stage debut in “I and You,” a drama from playwright Lauren Gunderson that will premiere Oct. 25 at the Hampstead Theatre in London. Slated to run through Nov. 24, the piece depicts Caroline,...
- 7/9/2018
- backstage.com
No play ever celebrated arrested development quite so amusingly as Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, a shambling off-Broadway hit from 1996 now revived starring Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and an ingenue named Tavi Gavinson, all making their Broadway debuts. The production is the latest transfer by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, and as staged by Anna D. Shapiro, it’s typical of that celebrated troupe in its physicality combined with thoughtfulness.
The time is the 1980s and the setting is the apartment of Dennis (Culkin), who passes the time selling weed and coke while waiting for his life to happen. When his equally vacant but much milder friend Warren (Cera, of Juno and Arrested Development) shows up with $15,000 stolen from his possibly mobbed-up father, the boys consider several options: using the money to score a major drug deal and make even more money; return it before Warren’s father discovers...
The time is the 1980s and the setting is the apartment of Dennis (Culkin), who passes the time selling weed and coke while waiting for his life to happen. When his equally vacant but much milder friend Warren (Cera, of Juno and Arrested Development) shows up with $15,000 stolen from his possibly mobbed-up father, the boys consider several options: using the money to score a major drug deal and make even more money; return it before Warren’s father discovers...
- 9/12/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
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