A chat with the NYC venue’s new leaders, good news from the wild project, new plays’ strong showing, and a world-premiere listing. But how does shared leadership actually work in practice? That was ...

NEW YORK CITY: There’s good news for theatre criticism at two of the nation’s most important outlets, The New York Times and The New Yorker. After holding the job of theatre critic and staff writer ...

As a special offering in our Offscript feed, we share this monologue by Kevin Renn about the legendary fashion designer who gave the world the Playboy Bunny costume. American Theatre is excited to ...

Robert A. Freedman died on Sept. 22 at the age of 89. Perhaps it’s appropriate that this memoriam is being written on a cold and wind-swept rainy night, a fitting and dramatic setting for someone ...

Theatres are stepping up for a national series of play readings by Indigenous writers, set for May 5, 2026, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives. HILLSBORO ...

A roundup of notable publications.

*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...

The complete script of Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust appears in our Spring 2024 issue. The play, about a lonely, full-grown man with an imaginary friend in a small town outside Rochester, N.Y., had its ...

Jeremy O. Harris talks about the sexual politics of white supremacy, and about how he finds humor in horror (and vice versa). Jeremy O. Harris. (Photo by Andre D. Wagner for the New York Times) TONYA ...

What will the union’s new Open Access mean for the theatre industry? Here’s our stab at an explainer. Inarguably one of the biggest pivots in U.S. theatre history was the official recognition of ...

Since 2000, thousands of productions of ‘The Laramie Project’ have shared Matthew Shepard’s story with communities around the world. Head writer and assistant director Leigh Fondakowski measures the ...

Lynn Nottage returns to the top of this list, which she dominated last year as well, after popping on and off the list since 2016. She earns the top spot on the strength not only of Clyde’s, but a ...