9,633 stories from American Theatre
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Declining full season subscriptions look like a shift in what patrons want. Look closer, and it’s usually a shift in what we’ve been selling them.
This month's roundup of world premieres from coast to coast (and beyond).
Theater Alliance, IN Series, and 4EYE Film Center will lead and share a new arts hub and gathering space.
The state of play(s) in Southern California, where the theatre refuses to die.
Despite challenges with funding and perception, theatre in Georgia's capital city is eclectic and vibrant.
How theatres in the nation's capital are surviving, striving, and living to fight another day.
One of 3 artists-in-residence at a newish theatre festival recounts the experience of gathering actors from all over China to explore Ibsen.
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
The adaptor/director of a new take on Sophocles's tragic trilogy reflects on the play's lessons about fate and failure, as retaught by the production's ups and downs—including a cancelled …
The industry must not look away from a moment that is begging for it to change, writes publisher Kelundra Smith.
Professional artists create intergenerational, collaborative theatre alongside kids at White Bird Productions.
The composer's longtime collaborator remembers his colleague's mischief and melancholy, and the melodic gift he took for granted.
DJ Hills takes inspiration from their own upbringing in rural Appalachia in this world premiere tackling the intersections among queerness, transness, class, and geography.
The Washington theatre commissioned 4 artists to share creative writing, performance, and video responses to the past year of living under National Guard occupation.
Imagine if we made arts and culture as free and accessible—and as beautiful—as places like Prospect Park.
Though it’s hardly her finest work, a new production of ‘An American Daughter’ offers a welcome chance to consider Wendy Wasserstein’s unique contributions to American theatre and be…
On this annual special episode, we announce the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the coming season, and are joined by 2 of the latter for a wide-ranging con…
This edition features designers of all kinds working throughout the United States.
Kimberly Belflower’s popular drama will be the most-produced play in the 2026-27 season (apart from ‘A Christmas Carol’), and Wilson will be the most-produced author (aside from Shakes…
The playwright behind the Ufot Family Cycle chats about making theatre more community-oriented and humane, and how to make Black girls fly.
The playwright of 'You Are Pretty,' 'Am I White,' and 'Teen Dad' talks about growing up as a mixed-race adoptee in Texas and finding her voice as a sketch performer.
A chat with the acclaimed actor and his wife, Nicole Ansari-Cox, onstage now in Oliver Cotton's new play at Shakespeare Theatre in D.C.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Opening Dallas Theater Center's season of all new work is a play about President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s fateful peace talk to scale down nuclear weapons.
