2024 Obie Awards Winners- The Full List
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 2, 2025
The American Theatre Wing has just announced the winners of the esteemed Obie Awards-Off and Off-Off-Broadway’s Highest Honor. We have the full list here!
Review: Prototype’s EAT THE DOCUMENT Brings Back the Activism of the ‘70s
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 14, 2025
The lobby of the HERE Theatre in SoHo was buzzing after Saturday’s performance of the new opera EAT THE DOCUMENT—not just for the performance we’d just watched but for the memories of the age that the piece evoked for many in the audience. Based on the novel of the same name by Dana Spiotta, DOCUMENT is a story of the ‘70s underground, with its activism, and a tale of sacrifice and living a secret.
Preview: EAT THE DOCUMENT Premiere Kicks Off PROTOTYPE Festival 2025 Lasting through January 19
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 8, 2025
New York’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival—produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, which has been showcasing visionary, nontraditional opera-theatre and music-theatre pieces since 2013—kicked off its 2025 edition on January 9 followed by BLACK LODGE/BARDO, IN A GROVE, POSITIVE VIBRATION NATION, AROOJ AFTAB: NIGHT REIGN, ART BATH, through January 19.
Interview: Kelley Rourke " Librettist, Translator, Dramaturg and Prize Winner
by Richard Sasanow - Sep 16, 2024
Kelley Rouke was driving when she received a text from Mark Campbell informing her that she was the winner of Opera America’s 2024 Campbell Opera Librettist Prize. Her reaction? She answered, “Stop it! It’s mean. Never joke about that!” because she couldn’t quite digest that she’d been chosen for the prize. “There are so many people doing great work that I couldn’t believe I’d been singled out,” she modestly insists.
Beth Morrison Projects Reveals 2024-25 Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Aug 27, 2024
Beth Morrison Projects has announced its 19th season, featuring a World premiere, two West Coast premieres, an NYC premiere and the third cycle of their acclaimed NEXT GEN program, along with the 2025 PROTOTYPE: OPERA | THEATRE | NOW Festival in partnership with HERE.
PROTOTYPE Announces 2025 Festival Beginning This January
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 24, 2024
PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now has announced the lineup for 2025, set to resume January 9-19, 2025. This will mark the final season co-produced by HERE and co-curated by Kristin Marting, who founded the Festival together with Beth Morrison and Kim Whitener, and who is also the outgoing Founding Artistic Director of HERE.
Industry Pro Newsletter: Do 'Influencers' Bring in An Audience?
by Alex Freeman - Mar 4, 2024
As theatre marketers continue to try and find new ways to market their shows - and in a very crowded Broadway season new ways to break through the noise - there is a strong trend to chase the next shiny thing. One of those elements of marketing that is newer to the marketplace is the use of influencers.