A grassroots coalition has emerged to honor the life of iconic queer artist Diana Oh, known as Zaza, who died last June, with a retrospective festival June 18-21. By American Theatre Editors NEW YORK ...
For this actor-turned-director, the job of running one of the U.S.’s biggest nonprofit theatres is less about finding an artistic home for herself than making a home for others. I spoke to Stone ...
We haven’t gathered the stats in some time, but when for a few years we conducted a “gender count” to track the progress (or lack thereof) in gender parity among produced playwrights, we discovered an ...
Each year the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize gives a $25,000 prize (and a signed Willem de Kooning print) to a woman+ playwright for an outstanding English-language play. It has typically alternated ...
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case! A stolen letter leads them into a high-stakes mystery of spies, blackmail, and international intrigue. With world peace at risk, they team up with Irene ...
A former copywriter for the D.C. organization reflects on the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has always been a part ...
This list was culled from 1,446 productions at 293 TCG member theatres, plus 156 productions at non-member and commercial theatres. As always, we did not tally productions authored by Shakespeare, of ...
A few hours after writer and performer Cole Escola offered this advice to LGBTQ+ viewers in a Logo TV interview, they made history as the first openly nonbinary actor to win a Tony Award for ...
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please join us in this mission ...
‘John Proctor is the Villain,’ now on Broadway, is just one in a spate of recent plays that offer feminist correctives to ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’ They are among the most famous words ...
As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet. Sarah Clare Corporandy’s chest clenched with anxiety as the first lockdown orders were issued ...