Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit objected to a “BIPOC night” program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit. By Michael Paulson A prominent nonprofit theater ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades. A new ...

If you’ve been going to the theatre lately, you’ve seen plenty of what I’ve started to think of as “piñata plays.” In this sort of story, a big family gets together and there are a lot of secrets. For ...

The Playwrights' Center, the Twin Cities' long-running incubator for new plays, has told supporters it is in a “financial crisis” driven by a mix of funding losses and shifting regulations. In a blunt ...

President Trump and his minions seem intent on doing everything they can to minimize the singular nature of the Black experience throughout American history, especially the role that racism has played ...

To inaugurate its new “Unplugged” programming – a format focused on simplicity in design to decrease production costs and to prioritize actors’ pay – Playwrights Horizons, committed to championing the ...

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...

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The historic Cherry Lane Theatre has partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker (BFA '03) to launch the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective. This nine-month developmental program offers a small ...

After a few false starts trying to dive into the play, I found a deeply satisfying solution: I retyped the play in its entirety: not just reading it passively and taking notes, but actually writing ...

Playwright Justin Tanner, author of “Pot Mom,” “Little Theatre” and “Voice Lessons,” is one of the signal voices of L.A.’s wild and free intimate theater scene. He has not only written what might be ...