Notes From Rwanda

by Erik Ehn October 12, 2011 Global Connections

(Video of the Centre x Centre Festival 2011) By Erik Ehn, Playwright, Head of Playwriting, Brown University TAPS Department and recipient of a Global Connections In the Lab grant Following are some reflections from the recent trip to Rwanda, where TCG was a huge help in funding our third annual Centre x Centre Festival – featuring [...]

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Sixth Round of Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships

by TCG News October 11, 2011 Fox Fellowships

The William & Eva Fox Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, are pleased to announce the sixth round of Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship recipients. The program is designed to support actors’ professional and artistic development, to enrich relationships between actors and nonprofit theatres and to ensure continued professional commitment [...]

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Call and Response: Judy Rubin

by Kevin E. Moore October 11, 2011 Fall Forum
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“I’ve been a theatre groupie since day one… Being on the board of Playwrights Horizons has never ceased to be the most satisfying thing I’ve done.” – Judith O. Rubin, I AM THEATRE During my years at Arizona Theatre Company, I remember a particularly difficult time when management was asking the board to be a [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Columbus Day Edition

by Teresa Eyring October 10, 2011 Fall Forum
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As I mentioned previously, I was in China for the ITI World Congress in September. TCG is the U.S. Center for the International Theatre Institute, and several of our member theatres and affiliates were able to travel to China for that gathering. Rick Dildine, executive director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, was one of the [...]

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Catching the Pass

by August Schulenburg October 7, 2011 American Theatre magazine
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(Photo: Gerry Goodstein. Pictured: Amy Staats and Lynette Freeman from WAKING UP by Cori Thomas, directed by Tea Alagić) Having previously featured the ACTpass in Eliza Bent’s April 2011 Strategies column in American Theatre, we were excited when Ensemble Studio Theatre’s ESTpass press release crossed our transom. Was this an idea with legs? How would [...]

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The Emigrant Project

by Rebecca Gilman October 5, 2011 Global Connections
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(Photo: Sven Benediktusson. Pictured: Rebecca Gilman and Mayor Keith Carlson of Lindstrom, MN) Sven Benediktusson and I received a Global Connections grant to conduct research for The Emigrant Project, a documentary play we are creating together. The play is inspired by Wilhelm Moberg’s novel, The Emigrants. The novel tells the story of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, [...]

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