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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   DORSET — Dorset Theatre Festival’s 44th season opens July 9 with a revival of Christopher Durang’s comedy “Laughing Wild” outdoors at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Directed by the Festival’s resident artist, Jade King Carroll, the play will star Dan Butler (“Frasier”), who starred in the Festival’s 2019 hit “Slow Food,” and five-time Festival performer and 2020 Drama Desk Award-winner Mary Bacon (“Coal Country,” Dorset’s “Mrs. Christie”). â€...

Today’s subject Beth Hylton is currently living her theatre life performing on your TVs and computer screens as the sole performer in Round House Theatre’s latest streaming production of Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up. The show is available for viewing through June 13th.

Artists Rep Announces New Artistic Directing Fellow The inaugural fellow, Zi Alikhan, will collaborate with the company’s artistic director while also heading up ART’s new DNA: Oxygen initiative for BIPOC theater practitioners. By Fiona McCann 2/22/2021 at 10:30am Zi Alikhan, Artists Rep's inaugural artistic directing fellow Artists Rep has announced Zi Alikhan as the inaugural artistic directing fellow, a new position that will include directing the company’s new DNA: Oxygen initiative. Alikhan, a 33-year-old director currently based in New York, took the new post this week...

Dorset Theatre Festival Announces Commissioning & Fellowship Program and Welcomes Resident Artist Jade King Carroll The Commissioning and Fellowship Program has welcomed its first two Fellows, playwrights Jihan Crowther and Josh Wilder.by BWW News Desk Dorset Theatre Festival has announced the launch of its new Commissioning and Fellowship Program, welcoming returning director Jade King Carroll as Resident Artist, who will design and oversee this program in collaboration with Artistic Director Dina Janis. Carroll will also work with Janis in producing the Festival's new StageFree Audio Plays...

Playwrights Realm Announces Winners of International Theatermakers Award Recipients include lighting designer Alexandra Vásquez Dheming, director Danilo Gambini, lighting designer Omar Madkour and more.by BWW News Desk Applying for an O-1 visa can cost thousands of dollars-and be a draining and uncertain experience. In a moment where most theatermakers are struggling to maintain their livelihoods, immigrant artists are having to work under the added pressures of these costly applications, international travel restrictions, and the maintenance of status requirements to prove "extraordinary a...