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American Theatre magazine

What’s In A List?

by Rob Weinert-Kendt September 14, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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Among the things TCG is best known for—its annual national conference, its far-reaching artistic and management programs, its lovely Manhattan conference room—arguably its most popular yearly feature is American Theatre’s “Top 10 Plays” list, which each October gives a snapshot of which shows are slated to receive the most productions in the coming season. Apart [...]

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American Theatre’s Randy Gener Awarded the ‘Rube’

by TCG News June 10, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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[Photo by Rick Maiman] The Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), honored the best of the best in New York area journalism June 7 at the Annual Dinner of the Deadline Club Awards, one of New York City’s most prestigious journalism awards, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. American [...]

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Haiku You: Great Plains Theatre Conference

by Eliza Bent June 10, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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I recently returned from the Great Plains Theatre Conference in lovely Omaha, Nebraska and for me it was a half-week filled with readings, workshops, full productions and meeting new people. Part of what was so nice about the experience was the lack of posturing or posing among participants. Perhaps that had to do with the [...]

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The Regional Tony

by Rob Weinert-Kendt May 5, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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The Tony Awards are famously circumscribed in their purview: Only productions that played in the past year in theatres of a certain size within about a dozen city blocks on the island of Manhattan are eligible (but there are no guarantees even then). What could be more provincial than that? Actually, of course, theatre may [...]

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Lynn Redgrave Remembered

by Rob Weinert-Kendt May 4, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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Lynn Redgrave touched many lives in the intersecting worlds of theater, film, and television, and on two sides of the ocean, from the film Georgy Girl to her recent Manhattan Theatre Club show Nightingale. And though she came from acting royalty, she wore her status with a common touch and democratic aplomb. Her death over [...]

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The Medium Is the Message

by Eliza Bent April 28, 2010 American Theatre magazine
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Last night I dreamt of my Colorado hosts and today I am wearing the sweatshirt (photographed left) they gifted me upon visiting them a few weeks ago. I was in Colorado Springs over Good Friday to see The Thorn, a passion play of an acrobatic order. The Thorn has been performed since the mid ‘90s [...]

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