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The Playwrights Realm will present the 2023 INK’D Festival of New Plays (April 24–27), the annual culmination of their Writing Fellows program.

The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.

April 13, 2021 The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles was in the midst of a busy spring season when the theater industry shut down last March. After having to cancel multiple productions in various stages of the process, the theater, led by artistic director Matt Shakman ( WandaVision), quickly pivoted to virtual performance. Utilizing a now-beloved "bad dad pun," the theater redubbed itself as the "Geffen Stayhouse," and became a hub for interactive shows, performed over Zoom and other platforms,...

NAATCO, today announced that the company has commissioned five Asian American Playwrights, all women, to write monologues for characters no younger than 60-years-old. Each monologue will be at least 30 minutes long, and all five will be performed together as a piece entitled Out of Time. The playwrights, Asian American women, are Jaclyn Backhaus, Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Moench. The idea was conceived and will be directed by Les Waters for NAATCO. NAATCO will develop t...

Today (March 5) in live streaming: Birdland takes over at Stars in the House, Irish Rep presents Belfast Blues, and more!

12:00 AM 5 x 15: Five New Fifteen Minute Musicals - Beck Center for the Arts produces, as part of the tenth collaborative partnership with Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program, the winners of National Alliance for Musical Theatres 15-Minute Musical Theatre competition. Directors include Victoria Bussert, Ciara Renee, Jon Martinez, Nathan Henry, and Sara Bruner. Musicals created and composed by Lynne Shankel, Sara Cooper, Nico Juber, and more. Stream the virtual production "5 x 15: ...

Icepack | Feb. 25-March 4 Have you ever noticed that once Groundhog’s Day occurs, forever right on Philly’s doorstep in Punxsutawney, that all hell opens up, and the news cycle becomes a ginned-up mess of celebrity blather, wonton guesswork, off-kilter virus reporting and a bloodlusty level of hate for Howie Roseman? Yes. Every year.  Another major news story on the guessing game of whether or not big, live concerts will resume in 2021 is as good (or as wrong) as imagining how plums could...

*Note: schedule is displayed in Eastern Daylight Time 12:00 PM Sin Eaters - Have you ever seen something on the internet that you wish you could unsee? Theatre Exiles world-wide debut of Sin Eaters by Anna Moench follows Mary, one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds. The play examines how social media can transform perceptions of reality and of ourselves and those around us. Sin Eaters is the second production of Theatre Exiles 2020/21 season and features two actors who live t...

Review: The Internet and Real Life Blur in ‘Sin Eaters’ Anna Moench’s play, about a woman working in social media content moderation, begins with dark humor but slides into psychological horror. Bi Jean Ngo in Anna Moench’s “Sin Eaters,” which is being streamed by Theater Exile in Philadelphia.Credit...via Theater Exile Sin Eaters If you think social media is a cesspool, Mary Lee knows that it’s even worse than that. Her story, recounted in Anna Moench’s play â€...

Shotgun Players Announces 30th Anniversary Season, Including the Tony-Winning Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Hopefully, if all continues on a positive path with the pandemic, each week ahead will come with small announcements about the Bay Area arts and culture scenes slowly coming back to life. This week, we learn that Berkeleys Shotgun Players is alive and well, and theyre planning an ambitious 30th anniversary season that kicks off with four shows meant to bridge the transition...