The Dramatist Blog

Pittsburgh 2019/20 Season in Review

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Mora V. Harris
and TJ Young

This season in Pittsburgh, we were lucky to see the continued growth and appreciation for new work.

Jonathan Berry and Aaliyah Sanders, in the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company production of Savior Samuel. Photo by Ricco Martello.

Aug 20, 2020

Ohio 2019/20 Season in Review

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Les Hunter

Ohio’s previous, truncated season saw incredible creative output from our region’s theatre companies, and this review will only account for a small part of its work.

(Top to bottom) Eleasha Gamble, John Treacy Egan, Kathy Fitzgerald, Donna English, Elisabeth Yancey, Michael Kostroff, and Alex Mandell in Clue at Cleveland Play House. Photo by Ken Blaze.

Aug 19, 2020

Kentucky 2019/20 Season in Review

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Liz Fentress

During the May 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020 theatre season, Kentucky audiences celebrated world premieres of full-length plays in Bowling Green, Louisville, and Paducah; at two new play festivals; and on

Linda Hill in the Public Theatre of Kentucky production of Talley Road

Aug 18, 2020

Tennessee 2019/20 Season in Review

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Arabelle Pollick

I put a purple pen to paper and began listing world premieres in ink by region throughout the good ol’ state. There was a lot of purple, folks.

(Top to bottom): Brooke Papritz and Caroline Simpson in the Playhouse on the Square production of When We Get Good Again

Aug 17, 2020

Gulf Coast 2019/20 Season in Review

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Anita Vatshell

Less than three months ago we were heading into a fresh theater season with multiple new work productions.

Elizabeth A. Davis in the world premiere of Buzz at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Photo by Stewart Edmonds.

Aug 14, 2020

Missouri 2019/20 Season in Review

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Hartley Wright

What does it mean to be alone? While this question resonates in light of our nationwide pandemic experience, it is present in the play DNR.

The cast of the Metro Theater Company of St. Louis production of Ghost. Photo by Jennifer Lin.

Aug 13, 2020

Chicago 2019/20 Season in Review

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“Wait ‘til next year.” For Chicago Cubs fans, that phrase used to be shorthand for the annual heartbreak, as the team repeatedly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory during playoff season. The infamous 108-year “curse” of the Cubs was lifted in 2016 when the team won the World Series, and a new musical about that moment, Miracle, with a score by Michael Mahler and book by Jason Brett, premiered in May 2019 at the Royal George Theatre.

Nondumiso Tembe and Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Lindiwe. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

Nondumiso Tembe and Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Lindiwe by ERIC SIMONSON. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

Aug 12, 2020

Michigan 2019/20 Season in Review

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Anita Gonzalez

Thank you, Michigan dramatists for all the new stories you have told, the writing sessions you attended, the camaraderie we have shared and of course, your premieres.