OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce the official launch of its newest grant program: the Campbell Opera Librettist Prize (COLP). Conceived and funded by acclaimed librettist and lyricist MARK CAMPBELL, the Prize is the first award in the history of American opera that specifically recognizes the work of the opera librettist. Applications are now open.
Dec 18, 2020
DG member and Chicago Regional Rep DEREK MCPHATTER has been announced as one of 42 artists nationwide selected by the 2021 Creative Capital Awards.
Dec 18, 2020
It has been fun and a challenge to meet other Florida members at virtual events and gatherings during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. As your new Florida Regional Rep, I have, along with Ambassadors ARIANNA ROSE, DJ SALISBURY and PAUL DONNELLY, created a myriad of informational meetings and social gatherings.
Dec 18, 2020
The Washington DC Theatre community has responded to the adversity of these strange times by inventing new forms of expression and remaining fiercely relevant in their content.
Dec 17, 2020
Esteemed American playwrights ED BULLINS, CONSTANCE CONGDON, and PHILIP KAN GOTANDA have been announced as the inaugural recipients of the Legacy Playwrights Initiative Award(s).
Dec 17, 2020
In 2020, we faced an unusual spring season, as we watched the American theatre evolve in ways unimaginable.
Dec 16, 2020
Take a look back at 2020 and Chicago’s theatre reckoning seems inevitable.
Dec 15, 2020
This issue, I shine a light on two immensely talented dramatists whose theatrical adaptations were seen last year on the stages of Central Works, Ubuntu Theater Project (now Oakland Theater Project), TheatreFIRST, and Shotgun Players: CRISTINA GARCÍA and GEETHA REDDY.
L to R: Erin Mei-Ling Stewart and Steve Ortiz in The Lady Matador’s Hotel, by Cristina Garcia, Central Works, 2019. Photo by Jim Norrena.
Dec 14, 2020
Washington, DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced the launch of the Miranda Family Fellowships, a program designed to provide talented candidates from historically excluded communities with the resources and training necessary to build their careers as arts administrators and theatre technicians.
Dec 11, 2020
Gingold Theatrical Group has announced DG members KATE DOUGLAS and SETH MCNEILL, along with Aeneas Sagar Hemphill, Divya Mangwani, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, and Marcus Scott as the newest members of the Speakers' Corner Writers Group.
Nov 23, 2020
