Monday, December 22, 2025
The D.C. theatre's incoming artistic director reflects on his path to leadership, the importance of risk-taking, and possibilities for brave new theatre.Â
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2025
In this edition of Sightlines, we experience an inaugural WBEZ theatre event, tour TimeLine's newest space in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, and hear from a rising costume designer.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2025
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
To compile this list of the new millennium's influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:00AM[SHARE]Gotham's stage laborers aren't just organizing their workplaces; they're also making their own, built on new models and partnerships.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:27AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2025
The new Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective incubator program continues the theatre's commitment to supporting rising playwrights.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:15PM[SHARE]The January activities mark NYC's Performing Arts Month, including Under the Radar, PROTOTYPE, the APAP conference, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 14, 2025
The 2 playwrights compare notes on what they learned from TV writing, what they owe their community, and Gabo's new play 'The Surgeon and Her Daughters.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:25PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
The new theatre-focused coworking space is designed for theatremakers and companies to have a practical home to run business.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:36PM[SHARE]A chat with the NYC venue's new leaders, good news from the wild project, new plays' strong showing, and a world-premiere listing.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
A deep dive into an East West Players revival, and a look at the legacy of artists breaking the gender binary.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:38PM[SHARE]Friends, family, and colleagues remember the veteran playwrights' representative, for whom storytelling was paramount.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:44AM[SHARE]As a special offering in our Offscript feed, we share this monologue by Kevin Renn about the legendary fashion designer who gave the world the Playboy Bunny costume.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 10, 2025
This small ensemble creates research-based plays with stylized movement, viewing universal human experience through the lens of Jewish thought.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2025
A new black box theatre and art space founded by local stage veterans is staging bilingual dramas and doing experimental residencies.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:37PM[SHARE]As he leaves the dual helm of the Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Yale Repertory Theatre after 24 years, he reflects on a career of leading and learning.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:28PM[SHARE]Helen Shaw leaves The New Yorker for the Times's top spot, while former NYer TV critic Emily Nussbaum will take over the mag's theatre beat.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2025
Over the next two years, PlayCo will team with six partner organizations and send nine playwrights abroad for global residencies.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:10PM[SHARE]Theatres are stepping up for a national series of play readings by Indigenous writers, set for May 5, 2026, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:39PM[SHARE]The gathering's eighth edition was grounded in narratives of faith, myth, and spirituality that define the complexities of the Latinx experience, for better or worse.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:51AM[SHARE]Our 2025 holiday stocking is stuffed: We chat with the writer/star of 'Ain't No Mo' and 'Oh Happy Day!,' with the director and star of the Alley's 'Night Shift Before Christmas,' and with aw…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
The 16 Edgerton Award recipients will receive extra development after their world premiere productions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
A frequent collaborator and friend reflects on the entwined life and work of an era-defining English dramatist, whose brilliance masked a secret sorrow.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:37AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2025
For 4 decades, this Los Angeles troupe has developed and staged vital theatre by, for, and about their community, and for about half that time have also run a multi-venue city facility.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
This edition features leaders and artists who are standing out in the Boston theatre community.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:58PM[SHARE]This year's gathering on theatre governance welcomed leaders back to New York to explore change"and the courage it takes to make it happen.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:48PM[SHARE]Big changes at California theatres and other comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:27AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2025
The new report set out to measure the scale and reach of the Washington, D.C. region's theatre industry.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2025
The study by Mellon Foundation and NORC at the University of Chicago set out to paint a comprehensive portrait of the realities of pursuing work an artist in today's economy.
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