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Weathering at the Penumbra Theatre

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  • Arts & Life

When a regional theater got millions to remake itself, it focused on racial healing

The historically Black Penumbra Theatre has received millions in grants to remake itself into a center for racial healing. What will its choices reveal about regional theater's future?

October 26, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Dallas Theater Center on Oct. 4, 2022. The play "Trouble in Mind" is about racism in a white theater company in the 1950s.

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  • Arts & Life

Without more federal money, what will regional theaters do?

Subscriptions and ticket sales are down, but theater is needed more than ever. What theaters are doing to survive.

October 19, 2022
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  • Sonari Glinton
Playwright Terry Guest poses for a portrait on Sept. 28, at the Alleyway Theater in Buffalo, N.Y.

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Where will the next 'Hamilton' come from now that so many playwrights are in TV?

Chances are the next Broadway hit will have originated at a regional theater taking a risk on an untested playwright. But once those playwrights are established, many of them start writing for TV.

October 12, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Bridgette Burton (left) Stephanie Ybarra and Rachael Erichsen all work at Baltimore Center Stage.

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Working in theater is a grind. But it doesn't have to be

The hours are long and the pay isn't great. But one theater in Baltimore is trying to rethink its labor practices to make theater a better workplace.

October 05, 2022
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  • Andrew Limbong
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett stands inside the Allen Elizabethan Theatre in Ashland, Ore. She recently programmed her first full season but not everyone has embraced her new approach.

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  • Arts & Life

Oregon Shakespeare Festival focuses on expansion – but is not without its critics

After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.

September 28, 2022
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  • Bilal Qureshi
To mark the 75th anniversary of this uniquely American cultural movement, NPR is traveling across the country for a look forward in our series <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/1124305446/the-next-stage">"The Next Stage."</a>

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  • Arts & Life

Across the U.S., regional theaters are starting to transform. Here's why

In the first of our six-part series, NPR's Bob Mondello explains how the theater that most Americans see is being transformed.

September 21, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello

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