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REVIEW: Laurelyn Dossett “How Many Moons”

Song Premiere: Laurelyn Dossett “Glory Glory”

Laurelyn Dossett “Glory Glory” Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Laurelyn Dossett’s song “Glory Glory” from her forthcoming album How Many Moons. This album was produc...

Rapid Lemon Productions’ disruptive ‘Blood of the Lamb’ is riveting

In a post-Roe v. Wade era, Arlene Hutton’s play is art to spark social change. By MARY V. HOLIMAN 

Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ shares our humanity at American Shakespeare Center

This classic is always a special show, and this production has just the right combination of light and darkness to make it a great experience. By ANDREW WALKER WHITE

Reconsidering dissent amid the ‘conservative resurgence’

Dissent is in my bones. I grew up in a Firs...

Theatre, the Post Office, and Democracy

By Laura Penn. In this keynote from the 2026 National Theatre Conference, Laura Penn compares the American theatre to the postal service as modes for human connection, civic engage...

"The Potluck": Musical Explores Trauma of 1979 Greensboro KKK Massacre of 5 Antiracist Activists

Composer and playwright César Alvarez joins Democracy Now! to discuss their new musical, The Potluck. It tells the story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when Klansmen and American...

Theater Alliance pays powerful musical tribute to Woody Guthrie’s legacy 

Sung outdoors, ‘Woody Guthrie’s American Song’ resonates with hope for folks’ hard times now. By SUSAN GALBRAITH

How a Student-Directed Production Became a Cosmic Cup of Coffee with Our Queer Ancestors

By Andy Bentley, Cecilia Lomanno. When Andy Bentley and Cecilia Lomanno directed The Baltimore Waltz during their senior year, it drew them closer to a generation of queer elders l...

Stitching a life back together: North Carolina’s push to improve reentry services

It is hard to imagine finding hope in a steel cargo container. But Shirlye Grandy sees life, fellowship and beauty in the metal box that sits on the Dix Park campus in Raleigh. Gra...

Direct from Edinburgh Fringe (and online!): Doing Time with Lavinia + 9

Lavinia Draper would have reminded me of Carol Channing – an exaggerated show biz blonde with a theatrically raspy, half-spoken singing voice – if Channing had been a full-on flooz...

Saying no to Dolly

This week has been full of reading stories of and tributes to Dolly Parton, moments when her life connected with theirs. What a treat! I’ve also been replaying my own life choices...

An American Daughter Review

The new production of the 1997 play “An American Daughter” has so much going for it that it takes a while to realize how much of a clunker it is.  Written by the late Wendy Wassers...

An Appalachian town was opening their "9 to 5" musical. Then Dolly Parton died.

Dolly Parton paved the way for generations of Appalachian performers, who looked to her as a source of inspiration.

Recorded, Relived, Reactivated: “These Men Are Potential Rapists” and the Women’s Coalition for Change

By Ryan Nock. More than thirty years after the Women’s Coalition for Change undertook a radical activist performance at the University of Maryland, a documentary screening and pane...

Commentary – ‘I learned that from Dolly:’ What She Taught Me About Being Unapologetically Gay and Appalachian

‘¡VOS!’ at Contemporary American Theater Festival

At its best, the play is a tender and beautiful meditation on the ways women inherit family, history, and loss, but emotional momentum stalls in exposition. By NICOLE HERTVIK

Commentary: Dolly Gave Appalachian Women Permission to Reach Beyond the Stereotypes

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Puppets in the Green Mountains

By . Join our international guest artists and local community leaders for three exciting panels that discuss the festival’s themes from the perspective of literature, local traditi...

An emotionally resonant love story in ‘The Notebook’ on tour at the National

Younger, middle, and older versions of Noah and Allie mirror the memory of a love that unfolds across a lifetime. By DANA ROBERTS

Songs of the Goat’s ‘Eurydice’ turns ancient myth into poetry

Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of the ancient myth becomes a touching exploration of love, memory, language, and loss.  By CHARLES GREEN

Is it time for a Wendy Wasserstein renaissance?

Is it time for a reassessment of Wendy Wasserstein’s 1997 An American Daughter, which she described as “darker” than her 20th century hits? On Aug. 11, when La Femme Theatre Produc...

Directing Queer Theatre at Its Edges on College Campuses: An Invitation

By John Michael DiResta. Queer theatre in universities straddles a cultural bifurcation of liberatory and reactionary perspectives.

‘Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea' hits home at American Players Theatre

The play is a mythic journey to understand his identity, make peace with the past, and embrace the magic of the present.