Today I talk about UPTA's & SETC's, four theatres have announced seasons and there are 2 interviews I found very fascinating, one you listen to and one you read. Sort of short today but filled with good info.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Chester Theatre Company (MA)

Peterborough Players (NH)

Westport Country Playhouse (MA)

Intiman Theatre (WA)

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

89.3 KCC The Frame: Tracy Letts' View from Linda Vista

The Interval interviews Sharriffa Ali and Victoria Clark on Directing and Strindberg

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A long-time AD is leaving the helm of a major regional theatre, two theater have season announcements, there's a new Broadway radio station in town and I found a new podcast that all actors should be listening to. Treading the Boards will be available for purchase at the upcoming UPTA's and ACL Theatre Resources will be a vendor at the SETC's.  Hope to see you there.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pillsbury House + Theatre (MN)

Greenbrier Valley Theatr (WV)

WHO'S IN & WHO'S OUT

BIG NEWS! Emily Mann, the artistic director at McCarter Theatre in NJ will leave at the end of the 2019-2020 season.

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You May Have Seen podcast by Brian Lafontaine

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In today's episode Drama Book Shop saved just like the Building & Loan in It's a Wonderful Life. I got fact checked by 2 theatres and I couldn't be happier. A Shakespeare company announces their season. Hartford Stage & Arkansas Rep announce new leadership and there's a really cool slide show on Playbill.com I want you to see.

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BIG NEWS

Drama Book Shop purchased by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tommy Kail, Jeffrey Seller & James L. Nederlander.

SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Shakespeare Theatre of NJ

Arkansas Repertory Theatre

WHO'S IN & WHO'S OUT

Melia Bensussen will be the new AD at Hartford Stage

William Trice takes the helm at Arkansas Repertory Theatre

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

Playbill.com - Anna Louizos Shares the Concepts Behind Her Designs of Broadway's Avenue Q, In The Heights, and More

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Happy Birthday, wait... Happy New Year! I'm looking forward to 2019. I have some great projects coming up and think it will be a fun & exciting year. I certainly hope that this year will be the same for you. Olney Theater Center, The Acting Co. and La Jolla Playhouse all announced seasons. Company of Fools in Idaho has a new producing AD. Some articles I talk about are Playbill.com's piece about Tarrell Alvin McCraney's philosophy on creating art, NYTimes.com piece about Samuel French being acquired by a music company, and OnStageBlog.com gives us Amy Clites' post, Three New Year's Resolutions for Actors That Actually Work and 2019 has been designated the Year of Chicago Theatre.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Olney Theater Center (MD)

The Acting Company (NYC)

La Jolla Playhouse (CA)

WHO'S IN & WHO'S OUT

Company of Fools (ID) has new producing AD, Scott Palmer

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

Playbill.com - With Broadway's Choir Boy, Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney Makes Necessary Theatre

NYTimes.com - Concord Music Acquires Samuel French in Big Push Into Theater Business

OnStageBlog.com - Three New Year's Resolutions for Actors That Actually Work

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2019 has been designated The Year of Chicago Theatre

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS! This episode is short and sweet to end 2018. Two summer seasons are announced and there are two articles that are really informative about understudy work and reasons you may have NOT gotten the job. I'll be back on Jan. 3rd with more Regional Theatre News.

SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Gloucester Stage Co. (MA)

Nebraska Shakespeare (NE)

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

The Secret Life of Understudies on Philly's Theater Scene

Reasons You Didn't Get the Job

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Two artistic directors interview each other about taking over for the founder and long-time leader of their respective theatres along with their visions for the future. Lynn Nottage, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, is having a busy winter. Three summer theatres announced their 2019 seasons. Actors Theatre of Louisville is granting theatre professionals a weekend of new american plays and check out TheatreTrip.com.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hangar Theatre, NY

Marin Shakespeare Company, CA

Bay Street Theatre, NY

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

Sarah Bellamy & Jamil Jude interview each other

TheatreMania interviews Lynn Nottage

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Actors Theatre of Louisville grants theatre practitioners a weekend of the 43rd Humana Festival of New American Plays

TheatreTrip.com

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Win a free issue of Treading the Boards. All you have to do is write a review after listening and I'll pick a winner on the Dec 13th show. I'm going to tell you about an LA theatre that has some 2019 summer shows coming up. Three theatres have announced new personnel. There's an NY Times article about 4 incredible actresses portraying Mothers on the Great White Way. She was asked to direct the tour of Hamilton but Tiffany Nicole Greene had to finish directing a gig at Dallas Theater Center first. A regional theatre combined audition is now taking applications. Great Performances - Harold Prince, The Director's Life.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Independent Shakespeare Company (CA)

WHO'S IN & WHO'S OUT

Kenney M. Green is the new Producing AD at Depot Theatre (NY)

The Muny's (MO) new Managing Director will be Kwofe Coleman

Detroit Repertory Theatre (MI) welcomes a new AD after 61 years (American Theatre Magazine)

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

New York Times interview with Rosemary Harris, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close & Mercedes Ruehl

Tiffany Nicole Greene was asked to direct the tour of Hamilton but first she had to direct Dallas Theater Center's A Christmas Carol

REGIONAL AUDITIONS

Twin Cities Unified Theatre Auditions

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Great Performance on PBS - Harold Prince, The Director's Life

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Win a free issue of Treading the Boards, just write a review by Dec. 12th and you'll be in the running. Four summer theatres have announced their 2019 seasons, Aaron Sorkin writes about adapting To Kill a Mockingbird, Alabama Shakespeare Festival starts a new initiative commissioning 22 new plays, American Theatre magazine tells us about Williamston Theatre's Development Director and how she excels in fundraising. Popcorn Falls is available for licensing and there's a new podcast you should check out Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cortland Repertory Theatre (NY)

Peninsula Players (WI)

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (NV)

Idaho Shakespeare Festival (ID)

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

Aaron Sorkin writes about his experience adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for Broadway

Alabama Shakespeare Festival announces 22 new play commissions to enrich the Southern canon with new and relevant voices.

NYTimes.com article about ASF's new initiative

American Theatre Magazine's piece about Williamston Theatre's Development Director, Emily Sutton-Smith and her fundraising skills

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Popcorn Falls is available to license

Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine

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Since the past few weeks I've been working very hard on the latest issue I won't be talking about season announcements or who's in or who's out, you'll have to get the book for those tidbits. I do tell you about a couple of articles I read that I found interesting and remember that docu about Terrence McNally, Every Act of Life, I thought you about? Well there's a companion book and I might meet the authors.

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ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

NYTIMES.COM article/interview with Jay O. Sanders

Glamour.com Ann Dowd's speech

AmericanTheatre.com Steppenwolf Theatre Company has launched the MIX list.

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There's no date or time set but Drama Book Shop will have Terrence McNally and author/director of Every Act of Life, Jeff Kaufman, for an evening to discuss their project.

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PRE-ORDER the new issue of Treading the Boards which will be available next week. Some theatres have announced seasons (thank goodness it keeps me in business when they do that). There's an artistic director leaving and another coming in and some really good interviews to tell you about. Oh, and I saw the Terrence McNally documentary.

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SEASON ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cape May Stage, NJ

Barter Theatre, VA

Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, NC

WHO'S IN & WHO'S OUT

Joanie Schultz is leaving WaterTower Theatre, TX

Ethan Paulini is joining Weathervane Theatre as the AD

ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

Ethan McSweeny talks about why he gave American Shakespeare Center a chance and what he sees for the theater's future

Actor Jefferson Mays talks about his work in the new adaptation he and his wife wrote for A Christmas Carol.

Desdemona Chiang talks about directing her latest production of King of Yees at Baltimore's Center Stage.

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