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Theatre Communications Group has announced that Karena Fiorenza and LaTeshia Ellerson have been appointed as interim executive leaders.

This spring, Tisch Drama is teaming up with the innovative marketing agency Situation to introduce an exciting new Lab course: From Storytelling to Story Selling: Live Experience Marketing.

Dramatists Guild Foundation announces the recipients of the Catalyst Fellowship in a new announcement.

Discover the latest updates from the Vineyard Theatre as they reveal new additions to their Board of Directors. Get all the details on who will be joining the prestigious board.

Theatre Communications Group's 2024 TCG Gala: Our Stories will honor ​architect and designer David Rockwell, Broadway producer Brian Anthony Moreland, director Schele Williams, and The Shubert Foundation.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society has promoted Randy Anderson to Deputy Director and Kristy Cummings to Director of Contract Affairs.

The transformation continues to be global - after US based writers and actors won concessions from the film industry, stage performers in Australia are looking to increase their own pay. In response to funding changes at the government level, the English National Opera is moving out of London and heading to Manchester.

Families may register now for TADA! Youth Theater 2024 week-long musical theater public and private school break camps at TADA! Youth Theater. Learn more about how to register here!

Tony Award nominee L Morgan Lee, Bianca Leigh, and more are set to star in an industry reading of the new musical 'A Complicated Woman.' Directed by Jeff Calhoun, the reading will take place on December 15th.

The Association of Performing Arts Professionals has announced the names of eight individuals who will receive APAP Awards on Monday, January 15 at 9:30 a.m. at the New York Hilton Midtown.

John Zinn is a free-lance arts marketing consultant and producer. He was Director of Marketing and Communications at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago for 7 years and has worked with the company in some capacity for a total of 15 years.

Not-for-profit History Matters: Celebrating Women's Plays of the Past has announced the recipients of its 2023 Sallie Bingham Grant, a monetary award granted to support a faculty-mentored student-directed reading series or full production of a play or plays by a historic female playwright.

Hosted by the Alliance Theatre, the TYA/USA 2024 Festival & Conference will invite theatremakers from across the country to gather for artistic exchange, dialogue, and framing for the future that will motivate us to action.

A joint letter has been sent to the president of Santa Monica College regarding the school’s cancellation of the play By the River Rivanna by G. Bruce Smith. Read the letter here.

The new musical comedy The Last Days of Cleopatra , penned by acclaimed composer and playwright Charlie Barnett, is set to have an exclusive invite-only industry presentation.

Gabriel Stelian Shanks, Bevin Ross, and Bonnie Comley were joined by The Drama League Board, staff, family, and friends to announce major gifts to The Irene Gandy Directing Assistantships.

TRW Plays, the plays publishing division of Theatrical Rights Worldwide, will publish three new plays from playwright Abby Rosebrock: BLUE RIDGE, DIDO OF IDAHO, and SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE. Learn more about the plays here!

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has opened applications for writers and critics for its annual National Critics Institute program. Learn more about how to apply here!

New York Stage and Film has successfully launched the “NYSAF 40 Campaign: The Foundation of American Storytelling” in honor of their 40th Anniversary in 2025. For nearly four decades, NYSAF has been an integral part of the arts in the U.S. and vital to the creation of thousands of new stories for the stage and screen.

Cara Joy David dives into the eligibility decision surrounding Gutenberg!, and some good news on the regional front - success in one of the emergency fundraising campaigns at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Not only were they able to save their season, but exceeded their goal in a way that makes future planning possible and the full staff has been retained.

On Tuesday, November 28th IndieSpace, an organization established to disrupt the ongoing displacement of small theaters and to create a new model for equitable funding for the indie theater community, hosted The Big Give at Chelsea Factory (547 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001) and handed out $1000 grant checks to 60 recipients of their annual Pay Your People Grants.

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust announced the names of the two outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights who will be celebrated with 2023 Steinberg Playwright Awards in the amount of $100,000 each.  This year's recipients of the “Mimi” Awards are Martyna Majok and Mona Mansour. 

Ephie Aardema, Talia Suskauer and Leenya Rideout will lead an industry reading of AND YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING, a new play, with music, exploring the life of trailblazing singer-songwriter Debbie Friedman.

For three nights only, from December 13th - December 15, PHASES, a character driven, speculative sci-fi play by Samuel-Taylor will debut as a staged reading at The Black Box at Playwrights Downtown for an invited audience. 

Donja R. Love announces Matty Mahoski as the recipient of the 2023 Write It Out! Prize for playwrights living with HIV. Mahoski's play, 'UN(IN)SURE,' was selected by Love from four finalists. Write It Out! is a program and prize for people living with HIV, designed to cultivate their artistic voice.