Democracy is in crisis. But writers such as Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, are stepping up ...

Founded in 1978, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the longest-running prize in English theatre for female and nonbinary playwrights. American writer ak payne has won the 2025 prize for their play ...

Playwright Larissa FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm for Indigenous arts and audiences. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been getting ...

Irondale, now celebrating forty years of artistically ambitious, and cutting-edge theatre, presents the world premiere of an original devised work, American Century: Part 1, April 21-May 21, 2023. In ...

Audiences at the Glen Hazel Recreation Center in Pittsburgh could hardly have known, as they watched the sole performance of a modest two-character play called “Recycle” one summer night in 1973, that ...

Three new plays by Chicago-based African American playwrights will have staged readings at Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s first Gloria Bond Clunie Playwright’s Festival June 1-2 in the Noyes Cultural ...

David Snider, producing artistic director of the Young Playwright’s Theater since 2005, believes that many future playwrights are currently students in Greater Washington schools and participants in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Playwright Richard Greenberg at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa in 1997. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times) Playwright ...

August Wilson, move over. Tony Kushner, stand aside. Sam Sheppard, David Mamet and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the doorbell is ringing. You’ve got company in the pantheon of pioneering 21st-century American ...

Brandeis University has awarded its prestigious Creative Arts Award for 2025 to playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse. She will receive the award in a ceremony on the Brandeis campus in ...

2 Video: Karl Josef Co sings 'Finishing the Hat' from Sunday in the Park with George at 54 Below! 3 Video: Jon-Michael Reese sings 'Last Midnight' from Into the Woods at 54 Below! This new initiative ...

Playwright Richard Greenberg was the maestro of shimmering verbal arias. His well-born characters spoke as if they had been transplanted against their will from a Henry James novel to the later 20th ...