American Theatre

The only national magazine that provides comprehensive coverage of the world of theatre both in the U.S. and abroad. Includes 5 complete playscripts each year, artist profiles, and much more. Two special issues published each year "Theatre Training" (January) and "Season Preview" (October).

American Theatre

From the Editor

Contributors

From the Executive Office

THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP’S MISSION IS TO… • lead for a just and thriving theatre ecology

Send Me an Angel

FOREVER YOUNG

UNSEEN FORCES

BLACK OUT: AN ONGOING NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF AUDIENCE CURATION

HEART FELT

WHEN KWAME WAS STOKELY

INGRID MICHAELSON • The singer/songwriter’s first musical, an adaptation of The Notebook with playwright Bekah Brunstetter, is now running on Broadway.

MARK CLAYTON SOUTHERS • The founder and producing artistic director of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will premiere his new play The Coffin Maker at Pittsburgh Public Theater in May.

Come As YOU ARE • Theatre is all about human behavior. Is it time to let audiences be fully human too?

Wish You WERE HERE • A roundtable on how to create radically welcoming access at the theatre.

SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE DEAD. LONG LIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS! • Theatres are taking a hard look at a well-worn patron model, and coming to different conclusions about its usefulness.

SURVIVAL Strategies • Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to the crisis is ever increasing.

How the WOLF SURVIVES • When La Liga Teatro Elástico came to Chicago, they built a puppet parade to dramatize our ecological interdependence.

All the LONELY PEOPLE • We say theatre can be healing, but what if that were literally true?

“ We Are in the WRONG PLACE” • In 1968, one of the American regional theatre’s founding mothers wrote an urgent memo to her board: It was long past time to integrate the company and diversify the audience.

Primary Trust EBONI BOOTH • Kenneth is a lonely guy living in a small town outside of Rochester, New York. After Kenneth unexpectedly loses his job, he realizes how unprepared he is to face the challenges of everyday life. A play about friendship, loss, and trying new things.

EBONI BOOTH: Only Connect • An interview with the playwright

SEASON PREVIEW 2024

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