8,515 stories by "American Theatre Editors"
In its ’80s IP retro rush, is Broadway's 2025-26 season simply offering brand-name escapism—or finding a reflection of, and a response to, our current age of anxiety?
ACT's outgoing artistic director talks about the joys and challenges of an artistic home, and an author/critic explains how yesterday's culture wars paved the way for today's.
A grassroots coalition has emerged to honor the life of iconic queer artist Diana Oh, known as Zaza, who died last June, with a retrospective festival June 18-21.
This year's Rising Leaders program highlights emerging artists within the Puerto Rican diaspora, ahead of the upcoming TCG conference on the island.
June highlights include the birth of the Presidential Task Force on the Arts and Humanities, the rebirth of queer theatre The Other Side of Silence, the 2016 'Hamilton' Tonys sweep, and more.
For this actor-turned-director, the job of running one of the U.S.'s biggest nonprofit theatres is less about finding an artistic home for herself than making a home for others.
As the 'Will and Grace' star makes a theatrical return in the wild new musical 'Iceboy!,' she chats about her love for comedy, Chicago, and making people cry.
A complete listing of new plays being produced this month.
The first production-side standard for hair in theatre, film, and TV aims to address gaps in standards for treating textured hair with productions that have no hair lead, or unqualified hair…
New Victory Theater’s artistic director makes the case for breaking down borders, both between ‘adult’ and youth theatre and between U.S. and global work.
The new initiative is designed to provide Equity actors the opportunity to be seen by top creative talent and casting professionals outside of typical production-specific auditions.
A new musical from Jen Silverman and Dave Malloy seeks to bring the Oscar-nominated ballet thriller to the stage.
Signed by 250 Native and non-Native artists, the new effort and alliance calls on U.S. institutional theatre to produce Native-authored work and engage in authentic collaborations.
Next month’s Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival will offer an NYC showcase to smart, often bleakly comic new work from Central and Eastern Europe.
Beginning this year, Stage Partners will be the exclusive publisher of the Farm Theater’s College Collaboration Project, expanding access to plays written for early-career artists.
PlayPenn's 2026 New Play Development Conference will feature new work by Roger Zoe Palmer, Roger Q. Mason, and Sarah Mantell, as well as expanded engagement events.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
The inaugural All. Together. Now. festival at UNC-Chapel Hill, set for February 2027, will feature performances, community events, and conversations across campus and downtown Chapel Hill.
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
A new collaboration with Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival aims to expand engagement with modern adaptations of Shakespeare plays.
Leadership advice from the producing artsitic director of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
A guide on how to start a theatre company in 2026, and highlights on six iconic Puerto Rican artists ahead of the TCG conference.
The challenges facing theatre MFA programs, and the journeys of recent college theatre program graduates.
Applications are now open for the first bicoastal 2026-27 BIPOC Critics Lab cohort, as the 2025-26 cohort completes their training.
The scholarship, administered by Theatre Communications Group, supports early-career costume designers through professional development.
