CHICAGO: Carson Grace Becker has stepped down from her role as Chicago Dramatists (CD) artistic director, effective Aug. 31. The board and staff have no immediate plan to name an interim leader.

NEW YORK CITY: Signature Theatre has announced that Emily Shooltz will be the company’s new artistic director, succeeding interim leader Beth Whitaker, who has served in the role since the departure ...

NEW HAVEN, CONN.: This year’s digital new-work festival Black Trans Women at the Center: a New Play Festival has been announced as a co-production of Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., The ...

A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by John Goodwin, Harper and Row, New York, NY. 416 pp, $25 cloth. Available May.

An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...