Zacarías’ ‘Native Gardens’ at Dorset
Playwriting alum Karen Zacarías’ Native Gardens has its first performance at the Dorset Theatre Festival tonight. The play, one of the most-produced in the U.S. in 2022-23, runs through July 21. Congratulations, KZ!
Zacarías’ ‘Shane’ at the Guthrie
Congratulations to Karen Zacarías, whose new stage adaptation of the classic novel Shane plays at the Guthrie Theater through Aug. 27. Listen to Karen talk about this project—a co-commission and co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park—here.
Zacarías’s ‘Destiny of Desire’ at The Old Globe
Playwright alum Karen Zacarías’s Destiny of Desire has its first performance tonight at The Old Globe in San Diego. The production runs through June 25. Congratulations, Karen!
Zacarías named 2021 USA Fellow
Playwright alum Karen Zacarías has been named a United States Artists 2021 USA Fellow, which includes a $50,000 unrestricted award. United States Artists celebrates artists and cultural practitioners who have significantly contributed to the creative landscape and arts ecosystem of the country and aims to promote the work of these visionary practitioners to a broader […]
A History of Book Clubs in the U.S.
1634 On a ship headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, religious reformer Anne Hutchinson organizes a female discussion group to examine weekly sermons. 1778 Hannah Mather Crocker organizes a female reading society in Boston to study science and read the belles lettres. Early 1800s Various groups of women in New England start meeting regularly to […]
Poster for ‘The Book Club Play’
Zacarías receives LPTW’s Lee Reynolds Award
Alumni playwright Karen Zacarías received the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Lee Reynolds Award on March 25. The annual award is given to a woman in theatre who has helped illuminate the possibilities for social, cultural, or political change.
Zacarías’ ‘Native Gardens’ makes AT list of the season’s most-produced plays
Playwright alum Karen Zacarías’s Native Gardens is on American Theatre’s annual Top Ten list of the most-produced plays of the 2018-19 season. Locally, Native Gardens enjoyed a run at Trinity Rep last spring, and plays at Lowell’s Merrimac Repertory Theatre until Oct. 7.
Zacarías’ ‘Native Gardens’
Happy first performance to playwright alum Karen Zacarías and our friends at Trinity Rep! Native Gardens runs through May 6.
Opening night for ‘Destiny of Desire’
Happy opening night of Destiny of Desire to Karen Zacarías! The new comedy—which the playwright describes as a “Brechtian telenovela with original songs and wild plot twists”—plays at Arena Stage as part of Washington, D.C.’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival through Oct. 18.