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Is the American playwriting glass half full, or half empty? Drink up this special issue before you answer.
There's no shortage of exciting new writing for the stage. But are we in a Golden Age of playwriting?
Move over, NYC. From Oregon to Miami, theatres around the country are home to the nation's most fertile new-play incubators.
Can a play get made without a production? At a few indispensable development hubs, that's the only way.
Robert Askins's profane yet profound 'Hand to God' is the No. 1 play of the season.
August Wilson is the No. 1 playwright in America this season, but San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson isn't far behind.
Women wrote just 26% of plays in the coming season, and men 63%, and new plays are outperforming old.
For tips on what's new and noteworthy on U.S. stages this season, who better to ask than literary managers and dramaturgs?
Loosely modeled after playwrights collectives before them, the D.C. group passes the torch.
As Charles Kopelman and Sarah Douglas of Abrams Artists Agency explain: They talk, the playwrights write.
If we can't move past our bias toward theatre made in the U.S. and ratified in New York, we might as well just build a wall.
Ten playwrights and musical theatre writers will participate in a nine-month intensive.
Volunteer theatregoers evaluated productions from the 2015-16 season in the Twin Cities.
The two Cleveland theatres will share facilities, resources, and artists beginning with the 2016-17 season.
How this dedicated follower of no fashion and avatar of alternatives to the well-made play keeps it weird.
How this West Virginia new-play fest builds and rides an annual new-play repertory carousel.
The authors of the latest installment have set the Time-Turner back to the 19th century.
From adventurous spies to recording artists, from Pasadena, Calif., to Hartford, Conn., it is a wide-ranging week for theatre.
He kept returning to his work with more to say and more ways to say it; we keep returning to his work because we can feel the love.
The 2016 North Carolina Theatre Conference sheds light on how theatres can respond to political issues this election year.
The emerging director will work alongside Pam MacKinnon on a production at the Ahmanson Theatre.
The lineup is the first programmed by artistic director Eric Ting.
Caption this image for a chance to win a copy of 'Bootycandy / Barbecue' by Robert O'Hara.
The Oregon theatre company will begin construction this fall for its own space.
The season features a new play and a world premiere musical, as well as the remount of a children's show in the Philippines.
