AT Features Calendar
Features Update
COMING IN September 2008
I Thought I Saw Emmett Till
What is left to say about Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old who on a trip from Chicago to rural Mississippi to visit relatives in the summer of 1955 unthinkingly whistled at a white woman in a candy store and became the target of a brutal lynching? Playwright, performer and essayist Carl Hancock Rux talks with two wildly different theatre artists re-investigating this emblematic event of the civil rights era—experimentalist auteur Ping Chong and playwright Ifa Bayeza, whose The Ballad of Emmett Till premiered this spring at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre with Joseph Anthony Byrd, in the title role. What, Rux queries, does Emmett Till’s story mean to American society in the politically charged present moment?
The Essential Image: 6 Master Photographers of the Stage
American Theatre art director Kitty Suen presents a color portfolio of the most exciting contemporary theatre photography in America. Six master photographers will comment on the qualities of a great theatre photo and how the technological developments of recent years have transformed their profession.
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A full-length play - Title TBA
Reservation Deadline: July 9 Ad Materials due: July 19
COMING IN October 2008
SEASON PREVIEW 2008–09
Don’t miss American Theatre’s annual oversized Season Preview issue—comprehensive, illustrated listings of productions, dates and directors for TCG member theatres nationwide. It’s the biggest, most widely read issue of the year. Bonus: “That’s Got My Vote!” Dozens of theatre professionals from all corners of the country cast their ballots for the upcoming season’s most exciting and innovative projects.
NEXT! 3 PLAYWRIGHTS ON THE MOVE
Meet Sheila Callaghan, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Itamar Moses, three of America’s most exciting contemporary playwrights. In a trio of cover profiles, writers Sarah Hart, Alexis Greene and Mark Blankenship explore the backgrounds, aspirations and distinctively different theatrical worlds of these provocative writers on the move—all of whom have multiple new works on tap in the coming theatrical season.
HAS YOUR THEATRE GOT ITS ACT TOGETHER?
That’s a tough question—and who better to answer it that Jim Collins, the business-management guru who recently headlined the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver. In a conversation with TCG executive director Teresa Eyring, the celebrated author of the best-seller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t retools his out-of-the-box strategies for growing great organizations to specifically fit the world of theatre.
Reservation Deadline: August 11 Ad Materials due: August 19
Features for any given issue are subject to change.
Updated features are available before the issue’s reservation deadline.