9,539 stories from American Theatre
An awards ceremony will be scheduled for a later date to bestow each writer with a $20,000 cash prize.
The Rochester, N.Y., company will hire an outside firm and begin a national search for Cuddy's successor.
Co-artistic director Tamilla Woodard will move into an advisory position as she takes a job at Yale University.
This hilarious result of collaboration between Writers Theatre and Chicago's world-renowned comedy theatre, The Second City, asks the intriguing question: What happens when the most recogniz…
When a young man tries to save his Gullah family home, he dives into the history of his family lineage, the Civil War, and the first town of Black freedmen in America. Mitchelville is a stor…
Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir …
On a new record, singer Eleri Ward reclaims Sondheim's melodies from his thorny harmonies, creating something new that's also true to the original.
The new cohort of fellows will work in the areas of communications, development, artistic programs, and theatre management.
While the report shows some progress, it also calls into question the field's funding disparities and the scarcity mindset.
Marisa Carr, Keelay Gipson, Isaac Gómez, and Stacey Rose will join the Chicago company as artistic director Ken-Matt Martin reimagines the program.
A choir founded during the AIDS crisis stages a revivifying concert amid another pandemic, as longtime leader Michael McElroy moves on.
A new Philadelphia production offers a timely, often disconcerting look at Antoinette Nwandu's play about police violence, soon headed for Broadway.
After a hiatus, the critics return with a look back at a tumultuous year and a look ahead to reopening on Broadway and beyond.
The stage and screen giant, recently appointed dean of Howard University's College of Fine Arts, looks back---and ahead---on an extraordinary career.
As students call out inequities in theatre training institutions, educators of color can find themselves with additional labor and scarce support.
A year after issuing them, theatre student and alumni organizers discuss the still unfolding results of their anti-racist calls to action for university training programs.
The award will support a playwright or theatre artist each year to develop a new work.
This month, a talk with with a playwriting legend, whose most apocalyptic recent works are being released this week as podcasts.
When Mac Rogers and I met our playwriting hero, Wallace Shawn, we were honored---and confronted anew with his devastating plays.
Though much talk has surrounded possible federal funding, let's imagine a world based in repertory theatre and funding from the state level.
The awards will allow 28 productions more time for rehearsal and development with the entire creative team.
My time at this storied Florida retreat was both relaxing and productive---and I was ready for the bugs this time.
Kaneza Schaal's initiative 'Towards a New Collectivity' will partner with five artists this summer.
The database will provide industry-wide statistics on race, gender, and disability in the American theatre.
A whimsical American fable performed by live folk musicians that will charm and delight audiences of all ages.
