Montego Glover and Quentin Earl Darrington Star in Beyond the Veil April 30 playbill.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from playbill.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While mourning one of South Florida theater’s most influential leaders, the GableStage board filled a programming void with Engage@GableStage, featuring fresh and free short, digital content from diverse artists. But the board’s most significant task carried out with a search committee that included Guthrie Theater artistic director Joseph Haj and actor-writer-director Teo Castellanos was to select Adler’s successor. A national search yielded 85 applicants, with the pool then narrowed to 25, then 10, then five. then one.
The new leader at the helm of GableStage is Bari Newport, who has served for the past nine years as producing artistic director of the Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor, Maine.
Bennett, an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, has published three books of poetry and literary criticism.
Khoury, whose plays have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, just graduated from medical school.
The awards are unique in that the nominees are not aware that they are being considered until the winners are actually announced. It is absolutely surreal, said Bennett, a new father, upon learning he had won. I was excited that we could finally fix the roof.
Bennett s award was for a body of work, including Being Property Once Myself, and for his poetry The Sobbing School and Owed which the judges noted radically expands ideas of what it is to be alive in the world, reshuffling hierarchies of knowledge and power and hinting at a new way of being.”
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COVENANT - By York Walker, directed by Tamilla Woodard, dramaturg: John Glore. When he returns home to his small Georgia town, rumors fly that blues guitarist Johnny Honeycomb James may have sold his soul to the devil to attain his musical genius. But in this twisty folk-horror drama, jealousy, distrust and superstition determine Honeycomb s fate-even if the devil does play a part. click here
City in Transition: The Quadrant Series - Every city has its stories. This innovative on-demand digital production from Theater Alliance weaves together tales from across Washington, DC - sharing histories, experiences, and issues from within the District s four quadrants. Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell and written by Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Avery Collins, Shalom Omo-Osagie, and Leslie Scott-Jones, CITY IN TRANSITION provides a dynamic account of our nation s capital from artists who call the city their home. click here