Monday, September 29, 2025
This edition highlights immigrant theatremakers, ranging from performers to designers to the folks behind the scenes making sure productions make it to the stage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PMFriday, September 26, 2025
Like many, I found a home for my imagination and my best self to bloom on school stages. Are those same chances still open to new generations?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, September 25, 2025
New memoirs from playwright Martin Sherman and producer Jeffrey Seller recount their bumpy but determined journeys to lives in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:29PMA roundup of prizes, residencies, fellowships, and other recognitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:55PMTuesday, September 23, 2025
After 4 arts organizations challenged the NEA policy, the U.S. District Court struck down restrictions disfavoring grants for projects promoting ‘gender ideology’ as unconstitutional.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:59AMThough he personally left behind stage work early in his career, through his Sundance Institute Redford championed and empowered generations of theatremakers in the U.S. and the world.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMMonday, September 22, 2025
As his popular two-hander makes the rounds of U.S. theatres in the coming season, playwright Lloyd Suh reminisces on the play's development and continued resonance in an anti-immigrant clima…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PMEditors unveil AT's annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays and Top 20 Most Produced Playwrights lists and chat with Irene Sankoff, David Hein, and the ubiquitous Gunderson.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32AMFriday, September 19, 2025
After taking in nearly a week of performances, some durational and all participatory on some level, can I really go back to everyday, run-of-the-mill theatre?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:02PMThursday, September 18, 2025
As we look forward to this year's theatre season across the U.S., our Fall issue also takes stock of lessons from history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:33PMThe prolific Lauren Gunderson is back on top for the third time (*26 due to ties; list does not count works by Shakespeare).
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:31PMKiss a fish! The post-9/11 musical 'Come From Away' takes the top spot in its first appearance on our list, followed closely by 'Primary Trust' and 'Eureka Day.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PMAhead of a fall tour of the new concert musical ‘Dear Everything,’ V (formerly Eve Ensler) reflects on the climate change crisis, the 'vagina that could,' and her vision for collective a…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, September 17, 2025
A new nationwide movement aims to connect artists in opposition to the Trump administration's cultural policies and to reclaim the nation's institutions and narratives.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMTuesday, September 16, 2025
In Josefina López’s ‘An Enemy of the Pueblo,’ even a flawed woman can tell the truth.
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5 TGNC artists have been commissioned to spend the next 2 years developing new works about the history of gender nonconformity.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AMFriday, September 12, 2025
A report from last weekend’s gathering of makers, leaders, and thinkers, curated by National Black Theatre at NYC’s Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PMA season-long August Wilson celebration will honor the playwright’s 80th birthday with community partnerships throughout New Haven, Connecticut, where six of his plays premiered.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:11AMThough many have regained pre-pandemic attendance levels, theatres remain behind other cultural organizations, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance found.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:04AMA roundup of awards, citations, and residencies.
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In the first edition of our new column: a dive into some data about the coming theatre season across the U.S. and in NYC.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 06:18PMPre-show dinner and discussions at Round House Theatre are using Matthew López’s two-part epic to gather queer folks of various ages to reflect on community, care, and culture.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:20PM‘Huzzah!’ at the Old Globe, the first major effort by the musical-writing couple since ‘Legally Blonde,’ is about a succession crisis at a family-run Renaissance Faire.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
With the lease on its building set to expire, a Pittsburgh theatre convened a gathering of voices to reconsider and reimagine questions of ownership, property, and community, particularly fo…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:58PMTuesday, September 9, 2025
14 new Kilroys have been named to carry forward the group’s advocacy for gender parity in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:25AMLessons from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s last 2 years at Hunter: collaboration, delegation, and digging deeper.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMMonday, September 8, 2025
The new two-theatre complex in San Diego is the culmination of a partnership between Cygnet Theatre and the historic preservation group Arts District Liberty Station.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:47PMFriday, September 5, 2025
The vaccination-themed farce, born at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company and acclaimed nationwide, is back with a lot of its original team—but not at the original theatre, which has shut do…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:36AMThursday, September 4, 2025
A year after ending operations in upstate New York, SPACE will offer Family Residencies to 5 artists affected by the Eaton-Palisades fires earlier this year.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PM1945 (80 years ago) Tennessee Williams returned to New York after spending the summer at a resort in Mexico writing poetry and a play he would later name A Streetcar Named Desire. His return…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, September 3, 2025
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
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