ROB WEINERT-KENDT: Lou, Nidia, I want to start by asking, was this handover a long time coming? Was there a succession plan? LOU MORENO: It’s a complicated question. John McCormack, our executive ...

As seen at a recent festival, theatre from Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, and Poland can't help but be shadowed by war and retrenchment in Eastern Europe, though there is still joy and art to fight for as ...

Singer-writer-performer Florencia Cuenca recently made history as the first Mexican immigrant without U.S. citizenship to originate a co-leading Broadway role, as Estela in Real Women Have Curves.

That play was announced as part of the Arena Stage season last April with no pages, no treatment, and no title. Now, the story of Wallace “W” Tre and Free Dominic Mann, two gay Black men who meet ...

While some companies can quickly plug the holes in their budgets for now, the ripple effects of across-the-board cutbacks to federal arts funding may be long-lasting and felt by the most vulnerable.

Arts organizations, including dozens of theatre companies, had NEA grants withdrawn or terminated late last week, and leadership resignations at the endowment bode ill.

The administration’s 2026 budget comes at a time when the future of NEA staff and grant programs remains in doubt. WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Trump has released a 2026 budget proposal which includes, ...

Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes.

They are among the most famous words spoken by a woman in a canonical American play: “Attention must be paid.” It’s Linda Loman, of course, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, admonishing her ...

As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet.

One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...