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Bill Rauch: "Adaptation: A Lifetime of Building Bridges"

Bill Rauch is the inaugural Artistic Director of The Perelman Center for the Performing Arts (PAC NYC) at the World Trade Center. His work has been featured on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning production of Robert Schenkkan’s “All The Way” and its companion play “The Great Society,” as well as at many of the largest regional theaters in the country.<br/><br/>From 2007 to 2019, Bill was Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the country’s oldest and largest rotating repertory theater, where he directed seven world premieres as well as innovative productions of classic musicals, including a queer reenvisioning of “Oklahoma!” Among his initiatives at OSF, he committed to commissioning new plays that dramatized moments of change in American history. “American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle” resulted in such plays as Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat” (winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize), Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” the 1491s’ � ....

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Kristolyn Lloyd, Leland Fowler & More to Star in Suzan-Lori Parks' SALLY & TOM at The Public Theater

The Public Theater has revealed the complete cast for the New York premiere of SALLY & TOM, a bold new dramedy written by Pulitzer Prize winner and Public Theater Writer-in-Residence Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Steve H. Broadnax III. ....

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Shirley Jo Finney, trailblazing Black director, dies after cancer battle

Finney spent decades directing drama plays, including Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till,” about the 14-year-old boy kidnapped, tortured […] The post Shirley Jo Finney, trailblazing Black director, dies after cancer battle appeared first on TheGrio. ....

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Shirley Jo Finney, trailblazing Black director, dies after cancer battle

Finney, an award-winning director of plays covering the Black experience, has died of cancer at 74 after decades of artistic excellence. ....

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Shirley Jo Finney, 74, Dies; Addressed the Black Experience Onstage

After an acting career that included playing the Olympic sprinter Wilma Rudolph in a TV movie, she became known as a director for her work at regional theaters. ....

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