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 ...

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 ...

Over the next two years, PlayCo will team with six partner organizations and send nine playwrights abroad for global residencies. Theatres are stepping up for a national series of play readings by ...

Under the direction of dramaturg Sydné Mahone, the 36th season of the Genesis Festival of New Voices and New Plays will include the expansion of the Genesis Festival which has been an incubator for ...

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 ...

Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...

Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...

Douglas Turner Ward was a giant in the American theatre, but he was also my director, my mentor, my friend. In 1966, he wrote an editorial in The New York Times, titled “American Theater, for Whites ...

Fighting for freedom of expression in high school theatres can be a complicated cause, but it’s clearly a fight that matters for all theatre artists. But between writing about these incidents, and ...

Local theatre artists rise in revolt against Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss, raising questions about racism and free speech. To be sure, no one can argue with the fact that this city (and many others ...

The collective that started by saying ‘We See You, White American Theater’ makes its own demands to be seen, and fully included, at last. She has not been alone in that realization. Last week, when a ...

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...