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JUNE 4, 2024 HOUSTON: Stages has named Derek Charles Livingston their new artistic director. Livingston will take over when current artistic director Kenn McLaughlin steps down at the end of [...]

NEW YORK CITY: New York Stage and Film (NYSAF) has announced that Ian Belknap will be the comapny's next artistic director, following an extensive search process facilitated by Culture Change […]

TUCSON, ARIZ.: The Invisible Theatre (IT) has announced that managing artistic director Susan 'Suz' Claassen will step down in December 2024, moving to emeritus status. She passes artistic leadership to [...]

PITTSBURGH: City Theatre has announced that co-artistic director Marc Masterson, who serves alongside fellow co-artistic directors Monteze Freeland and Clare Drobot, as well as managing director James McNeel, will retire [...]

ROANOKE, VA.: Mill Mountain Theatre has announced that Matt Shields will be their new managing director, succeeding producing artistic director Ginger Poole, who retires on Dec. 31. Poole will remain [...]

AUGUST 21, 2024 BOISE, IDAHO: Idaho Shakespeare Festival has announced the official retirement of Charles Fee, who was serving as producing artistic director for three organizations--Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes [...]

SALT LAKE CITY: Pioneer Theatre Company (PTC), Utah's largest professional theatre, has announced the appointment of Adrian Budhu as the company's new managing director. Starting Aug. 1, he will join [...]

MAY 8, 2024 OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.: After three years as artistic director of OKC Repertory Theater, Kelly Kerwin is stepping down to be closer to family in New York. Kerwin [...]

MAY 14, 2024 DALLAS and FORT WORTH, TEXAS: Amphibian Stage founding artistic director Kathleen Culebro has announced that she will step down at the end of the season. Former managing [...]

MAY 20, 2024 LEWISBURG, W.VA.: Following a months-long search, Greenbrier Valley Theatre (GVT) has appointed Paul Stancato its new producing artistic director. The company officially welcomed him to the community [...]

DALLAS: Dallas Theater Center has announced that playwright Jonathan Norton will become interim artistic director. He succeeds former Enloe/Rose artistic director Kevin Moriarty, who was promoted to executive director in [...]

MARCH 19, 2024 0 COMMENTS BOISE, IDAHO: Idaho Shakespeare Festival has named Sara Bruner their next producing artistic director. Bruner will serve as producing artistic director of three organizations--Idaho Shakespeare [...]

MARCH 13, 2024 0 COMMENTS NEW YORK CITY: Signature Theatre has announced that artistic director Paige Evans will step down in June, having led the company since 2016, through the [...]

ST. PAUL, MINN.: The Interact Center for Visual and Performing Arts has announced that its founding artistic director, Jeanne Calvit, will retire in mid-February, after 27 years leading the organization, [...]

ROANOKE, VA.: Mill Mountain Theatre has announced that producing artistic director Ginger Poole will step down at the end of the season or when a new artistic director is appointed. [...]

KANSAS CITY: Unicorn Theatre has announced that producing artistic director Cynthia Levin will retire in June. Levin has served in her role since 1983 after coming to Unicorn as an [...]

STAUNTON, VA.: After nearly four years as artistic director of American Shakespeare Center, Brandon Carter will step down, the company announced last week. Carter, who made history as the first [...]

LENOX, MASS.: WAM Theatre has announced that co-founder and producing artistic director Kristen van Ginhoven will step down from her position in December after serving in the organization for 14 [...]

PHOENIX: Valley Youth Theatre (NAT) has selected Mark Stoddard to be the next associate artistic director. He will step into the role in August and ultimately transition to the theatre's [...]

LOS ANGELES: Snehal Desai will become the next artistic director of Center Theatre Group (CTG), joining managing director/CEO Meghan Pressman to lead one of the nation's largest theatre organizations. Desai's [...]

NANTUCKET, MASS.: White Heron Theatre Company has appointed Drew Kowalkowski as the nonprofit's first permanent managing director. He will join artistic director Lynne Bolton and producing director/co-artistic director Michael Kopko [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater today announced that its board of trustees unanimously selected Hana Sharif, current artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of [...]

NEW YORK CITY: Rattlestick Theater has appointed multi-disciplinary artist Will Davis to be the organization's next artistic director. Following an inclusive nationwide search led by ALJP Consulting and a dedicated [...]

NEW YORK CITY: Ping Chong and Company has appointed artists Nile Harris and Talvin Wilks to join managing director Jane Jung and associate director Sara Zatz on the artistic leadership [...]

MINNEAPOLIS and SARASOTA, FLA.: Theater Latte Da (TLD) has announced that its founding artistic director, Peter Rothstein, will step down and become the producing artistic director of Asolo Repertory Theatre [...]

SEATTLE: Sound Theatre Company has announced that Shermona Mitchell will begin serving as the company's co-artistic director beginning Jan. 1, 2023. Mitchell, the current associate artistic director at Seattle Public [...]

HILLSBORO, ORE.: Bag&Baggage Productions (B&B) has named Nik Whitcomb their new artistic director. Whitcomb, the program director of the Black Theatre Coalition, succeeds Cassie Greer, who was appointed artistic director [...]

WATERFORD, CONN.: Wendy C. Goldberg will step down as artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference (NPC) after 18 years in the post. Goldberg began her tenure at NPC in [...]

MILL VALLEY, CALIF.: Marin Theatre Company (MTC) has announced that artistic director Jasson Minadakis will step down on March 31, 2023. Minadakis has served 17 seasons with MTC. 'I am [...]

CHICAGO: Next month Cody Estle will step down as artistic director of Raven Theatre to become artistic director of Milwaukee's Next Act Theatre. Estle worked with Raven Theatre for 14 [...]

RED BANK, N.J.: Justin Waldman will become the artistic director of Two River Theater Company as of Nov. 1. Waldman will succeed outgoing artistic director John Dias. Waldman's responsibilities will [...]

PHOENIX, AZ. and SARASOTA, FLA.: Sean Daniels has announced that he will step down as artistic director of Arizona Theatre Company, and in spring 2023 take the role of associate [...]

PHILADELPHIA: After a nationwide search, Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) has found its new artistic leadership in the husband-and-wife team of Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky, who will serve as the [...]

PITTSFIELD, MASS.: Alan Paul, an acclaimed director with a long resume in the D.C/Maryland/Virginia region, has been named the new artistic director of Barrington Stage Company (BSC). Paul will succeed [...]

SINCE LAST AUGUST, HANA S. SHARIF HAS HAD two jobs. While finishing up her work at Baltimore Center Stage as its associate artistic director, every two weeks she flies to [...]

* In March Addison, Texas's WaterTower Theatre welcomed new producing artistic director Shane Peterman. Peterman succeeds Joanie Schultz, who resigned last fall. * Chicago Dramatists has named Carson Grace Becker [...]

* Melia Bensussen has been chosen to be the next artistic director of Connecticut's Hartford Stage. Bensussen will be the company's sixth artistic director, as well as the first woman, [...]

* Detroit Repertory Theatre has named Leah Smith its new artistic director. Smith, who currently serves as the theatre's marketing and development director, will succeed Bruce Millan in the leadership [...]

* Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort Myers, Fla., has appointed founding company member Greg Longenhagen as its new artistic director. Longenhagen stepped into the role in October. This transition comes [...]

IF YOU'RE ACCUSTOMED TO TRAIN TRAVEL, you may know that wobbly walk from the cafe car back to your seat while attempting' to balance hot coffees in a cardboard tray. [...]

In January Gregory Boyd, artistic director of the Alley Theatre in Houston, retired from the post he held since 1989. On his last day, The Houston Chronicle reported that his [...]

* Raven Theatre of Chicago has named Cody Estle its new artistic director. Estle, who served as the troupe's associate artistic director for three years, will succeed co-artistic directors Michael [...]

* Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery appointed Rick Dildine its new artistic director. Dildine replaces Geoffrey Sherman, who retired in July after leading the company for 12 years. Dildine is [...]

San Diego, Calif.'s MOXIE Theatre has new leadership. Artistic director Delicia Turner Sonnen berg and founding member Jo Anne Glover have stepped into advisory roles in July, and founding member [...]

* Profile Theatre in Portland, Ore., has announced that josh Hecht will be the company's new artistic director, following a seven-month national search. Hecht will take on the position in [...]

* Beginning in mid-October John Miller-Stephany will be the producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. Miller-Stephany succeeds Robert M. Hupp, who stepped down at the end [...]

* Kentucky's Actors Theatre of Louisville has hired Kevin E. Moore as its new managing director. He will succeed Jennifer Bielstein, who stepped down in March to become managing director [...]

* Cyrano's Theatre Company in Anchorage, Alaska, has named Teresa K. Pond as its new producing artistic director. Pond succeeds Sandy Harper, who's been with the company since it was [...]

* Michael Ross will step down from his post as managing director of Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse in June and assume the same role at Center Stage in Baltimore the [...]

* The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., has appointed Paul Crewes as its first artistic director. Crewes formerly served as the chief executive and [...]