Rinebeck, not: On April 29, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat announced the 24 writers of nine new musicals who will receive one-week residences in the Hudson valley this summer, June 22-August. 24. Writers and their shows are:
- Pete White and Fermin Suero, Jr., Boudline: a hip-hop odyssey
- Douglas J. Cohen and Cheryl L. Davis, Barnstormer
- Zina Goldrich Stage mother
- Rona Siddiqui, Pia Wilson and Lynn Rosen, Vibrate the cage
- Dylan Marcaurele and Mike Ross, Lewis likes Clark
- Jared Corak, Christopher Anselmo and Addie Gorlin-Han, Princess Kay of the Milky Way
- Tommy Newman and Jaime Lozano, Roja
- Rudy Percival and Sam WOOF, Mac house
- Samora Loseida, Mobéy Lola Irizarry, Matthew Onion and Josiah Handelman, Shanglish Sh! T
Created in 2011, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat offers one week residences so that musical theater writers develop their musicals in the Hudson valley. The musicals developed in Rhinebeck had productions in Public theater,, Barrington Stage Company,, Play Mill Playhouse,, The Jo PlayhouseAnd Horizons of playwrights.
New York: April 28, 2025 Tony Award Honors for Excellence in The Theater were announced before the appointments of the season. Celia Keenan-Bolger will receive the Isabelle Tony 2025 Isabelle Tony prize for her plea work via the arts. Harvey Prierstein will be honored with a lifetime price. Receiving Tony's honors for excellence at the theater will be the PBS program for a long time High performance,, Musical Goodspeed Executive director Michael Price (the oldest executive director of an American theater), New 42 (The company behind New victory theater And New 42 studios), And The New York Public Library for show Arts.
Washington, DC: New enthronement At College of Fellows of the American Theater were initiated into a presentation of Gala on Sunday April 27 at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, New Fellows class in 2025 includes Daniel Banks, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Andre de Shields, Kristoffer Diaz, J. Ellen Gainor, Gregg Henry, Robert Hupp, Joan Lipkin, David Wilson (Caridad Svich Constanza. Harvey Young of the 2021 class was the moderator of the 2025 inauguration. At the presentation, of Shields sung an interpretation of “believing in you” Wiz.
Oakland, California: On April 23, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation named San Francisco and internationally recognized storyteller, playwright, producer, director and performer Brenda Wong Aoki Like his theater scholarship holder in 2025 and one of the five recipients in his bay region Rainin Arts Fellowship. The scholarship honors artists from the Visionary Bay region with unrestricted subsidies of $ 100,000 and tailor -made resources for their needs and objectives. Launched in 2021 and administered by American artistsHe recognizes the artists who repel creative borders, anchor local communities and advance the arts.
The interdisciplinary practice of Wong Aoki extends the theater, the symphony, contemporary dance, world music, taiko, jazz set, film installation and an interactive museum. His work is inspired by his training in the forms of traditional Japanese theater of Noh and Kyogen, his lived experience and the history of his family in San Francisco. She was the first storyteller of the Asian Pacific recognized nationally in the United States, and his works are archived in the American collection of folk life at the Congress Library. In 1997, she co -founded First voiceOne of the only two organizations in the United States dedicated to the presentation and production of intercultural performance work. She was an artist in residence in more than 100 universities around the world and was a scholarship holder from the University of California. She taught one of the first courses of American Asian origin at the San Francisco State University and is a member of the founding faculty of the Institute of diversity in the arts at the University of Stanford.
New York: April 22, Foundation of stage managers and choreographers (SDCF), the non -profit foundation of Society of directors and stage choreographers (SDC), announced the recipient and the winners of 2025 Barbara Whitman Prize. Director and cultural worker Ango Angelettie is the Whitman Prize recipient. The finalists are a director of transsexual theater and creator of transsexual theater based in New York Dmitri Victor Barcomi; Fran de LéonDirector, actor, writer and educator born in downtown Los Angeles and raised in Hollywood and Manila; Emily LyonDirector, artistic director of the Ensemble Hedgepig, Dramaturg and co-creator of Develop the barrel; and theater director and teacher artist Caitlin Ryan O'Connell. Created by producer Barbara Whitman in 2021, the prize recognizes a woman, trans or non -binary who developed a clear and distinctive artistic voice and demonstrated a unique vision in their theatrical work. The winner receives $ 10,000 and the finalists receive $ 1,000 in unrestricted prices.
Cincinnati: THE Educational theater association (Edta) announced that Shaina Pumpkins will receive its 2025 Edta Founders' prize Theatrical education conference (TEC) has colored Thespian International Festival, from June 22 to 24 in Bloomington, ind. The price recognizes individuals whose work has had a deep impact on the growth and development of education, research and the practice of theater.
LOS ANGELES: THE Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle AwardsCelebrating the season in 2024 of the theater, were presented during a ceremony on April 21. Companies with several victories were the stick productions of Giggle Sticks, which received four prizes for its production of its production of Reefer Madness: The MusicalIncluding production, overall performance, orchestration / music and choreography management; Victory theater center And Sonmele sonreceiving three prizes for CrevasseLead performance, lighting design and visual effects design; And Echo Theater Companywho received three prizes for management, star performance and original writing for Abby Rosebrock in Idaho Dido.
Additional awards have gone to Eastern players' Pacific openingswith Two awards for the orchestration / music and costume design direction; Pasadena Playhouse's Katewhich won Kate Berlant the price for solo performance; A noise inside's The piano lessonwho received the McCulloh Prize for Renewal, and The skin of our teethReceiving a sign of the sound design; The visit of Kimberly Akimbo At Hollywood Pantages TheaterReceiving prices for writing – Adaptations and partitions (music and words); GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE's HamGain prizes for writing – adaptation and design of visual effects; And Road Theater Company's MercuryWin for design.
CHICAGO: April 17th Chicago Jeff Awards announced Hershey Suri and Adisa Williams as a class of Jeff Impact Fellows in 2024. The scholarships, which started in 2023Assign two artists of theater color at the start of their career with $ 10,000 each for their professional work, their education and their subsequent development in the theatrical community of Chicago.
Hershey SURI is an Indian the first generation Sikh theatrical storyteller passionate about the exploration of the intersection between sociology and the law, which plans to use the theater as a vehicle to reinvent the criminal justice system with its Jeff Impact purse. It produced and produced the first South Asian version of Next to normal with the South Asian Institute and Arise! Production. Current student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chicago, she plans to “marry” her experience in law with the creative efforts of the Popup! Productions and others producing works that are pressure for social change (based on the collaboration model of Columbia University Law and Broadway Alliance).
Adisa Williams is a comic book and interpreter of Jamaican American comedy who, with the Fellowship Jeff Impact, plans to record a comedy album of his recent show at the Embarrassmentfeatures another production highlighting neurodivergent talents, and bring its show to Edinburgh Festival of the fringes. As one of the 13 features in the CBS 2023 Showcase, His comic short circuit Ashay Niminations hung for two national film festivals. She is inspired by her childhood in Jamaica, growing up as an eldest girl in an immigrant family with queer neurodiversity. To bring more visibility to “out” autistic comedians and extend this to queer immigrants and colored immigrants, Adisa's vision is to enrich the comic landscape by promoting a greater representation of artists of neurodivergent colors.
