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Editor's note.
May 01, 2009; ... IF YOU'RE A TELEVISION NEWS JUNKIE LIKE I AM, YOU'VE probably heard Fareed Zakaria or Christiane Amanpour or some other international-affairs commentator lamenting that the global economic downtown is likely to have a particularly debilitating effect on the well-being of Eastern Europe ....
Going international.(FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)(cultural exchange in the international theater community)
May 01, 2009; ... THIS YEAR'S INTERNATIONAL ISSUE OF American Theatre arrives as the discourse around cultural exchange and cultural diplomacy is heating up. For some time, theatres have been reaching across the globe to share information and techniques, to collaborate on new work, to introduce new voices ...
WWW.TCG.ORG: news from theatre communications group available online.(TCG ON THE WEB)
May 01, 2009 ... TCG NATIONAL CONFERENCE Baltimore, Md., plays host to theatremakers from around the world for the annual TCG National Conference June 4-6. Attendees will plunge into themes of Roots, Renaissance and Revolution to strategize about coping in critical times. Speakers include ...
Back to China.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Robert Lepage's The Blue Dragon)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... MONTREAL, CANADA, AND BERKELEY, CALIF: In Ex Machina's 1985 seminal work The Dragon's Trilogy, the Canadian director-auteur Robert Lepage portrayed the main figure of Pierre Lamontagne departing at the close of the nearly-six-hour epic to study art in China. In a sort of sequel, The Blue ...
Songs in mind.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(rehearsals for original music-theatre pieces at the Yale Institute for Music Theatre)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... NEW HAVEN, CONN: The Yale Institute for Music Theatre goes into workshop mode for two weeks, June 7-21. Three original music-theatre pieces by emerging writers and composers--one show on Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo, another on Andy Warhol and a third on cancer--got the green ...
Lincoln X 7.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Ken Jones' play about Abraham Lincoln)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... LINCOLN CITY, IND.: Talk about confluence. In the southern Indiana town of Lincoln City, on the very grounds where our country's 16th president grew up (the area now known as Spencer County), a new play, simply called Lincoln, is having its premiere starting June 12. Written by ...
A longer Marathon.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Boston Theater Marathon)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... BOSTON: Boston's theatre marathon now lasts two days. On May 16, three plays (by Alan Brody, Kirsten Greenidge and Theresa Rebeck) are scheduled to be read. On May 17, 50 New England troupes perform the 10-minute plays of 50 New England playwrights from noon to 10 p.m. Both events ...
Canada moves into play dev.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(national play-development program)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... EDMONTON, CANADA: Canada now boasts its own national play-development program. Located at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, the Canadian Centre for Theatre Creation has been established "to develop work that creates a more accurate reflection of the nation's cultural ...
Muslim voices.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas festival and conference)
May 01, 2009 ... NEW YORK CITY: The Shakespearean characters speak and sing in Arabic. Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, has been rechristened Emir Gloucester. Naturally, the land at stake is rich in oil. Richard III: An Arab Tragedy is one of two theatrical centerpieces of' "Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas," a ...
African stories.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Mali Sadjo: The Legend of the Hippopotamus)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... PHILADELPHIA: Forty-year-old Philadelphia-based Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble brings a West African folktale to Pennsylvania this month when it premieres the 30-minute "theatrical ballet" Mali Sadjo: The Legend of the Hippopotamus. The piece recounts the love between a girl ...
Summit South.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Network of Ensemble Theatres Summit)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... SAN FRANCISCO: The City by the Bay hosts the 2009 Network of Ensemble Theatres Summit, June 17-22. The national coalition of ensembles, which in recent years has held its summer confab up the coast in Blue Lake, Calif., figures that the more urban site will prove more accessible and less ...
Stephin Merritt makes 'Coraline' sing.(stage adaptation of the book)
May 01, 2009; ... NEW YORK CITY: When Coraline, based on the macabre kids' novel by Neil Gaiman, plays May 7-June 20 at Off Broadway's MCC Theater, it will mark several firsts: the first time MCC has produced a musical; the first time director Leigh Silverman has worked with the creative team of David ...
Kushner's back, and the Guthrie's got him.(a revival of Tony Kushner's works at the Guthrie Theater)
May 01, 2009; ... MINNEAPOLIS: It goes without that saying that Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater is a behemoth on the regional theatre scene, what with its shiny new three-theatre complex designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, in-house costume and scenic shops and adjacent gourmet restaurant. Now the ...
Edgar Dobie.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Arena Stage's new managing director)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... * After a yearlong search, Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage announced Edgar Dobie as its new managing director, succeeding executive director Stephen Richard, who left the company in 2008 after 17 years (Guy Bergquist has served in the interim). Dobie has served as executive director of ...
Stephen Schwartz.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Dramatists Guild of America's new president)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... * The new president of the Dramatists Guild of America, the national association of playwrights, composers and lyricists, is Stephen Schwartz, whose credits include Wicked. Pippin and Godspell. He succeeds John Weidman, who spent a decade ...
Sandra Nordgren.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(13th Street Repertory Company in New York's new producing artistic director)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... * In February, Sandra Nordgren was named as the new producing artistic director of 13th Street Repertory Company in New York. She has served as the company's executive producer for more ...
Neal J. Freeman.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(New York City's Gallery Players new executive director)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... * New York City's Gallery Players welcomes Neal J. Freeman as its new executive director. Freeman has served a year on the ...
Patty Ortiz.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio's new executive director)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... * In Texas, Patty Ortiz is the new executive director of Guadalupe Cultural Arts ...
David Jobin.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
May 01, 2009 ... * In March, the former managing director of San Francisco's Magic Theatre, David ...
Ken Urban.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Williamstown Theatre Festival's Weissberger Award)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... * Williamstown Theatre Festival's Weissberger Award for unproduced American plays went in February to Ken Urban for Sense of an Ending, nominated by Boston's ...