9,586 stories from American Theatre
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can't be untold.
This adaptation of Sophocles’s 'Antigone' centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
Vickie Ramirez's play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
This month Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he's not an actor from Tom Hanks.
A report from Shepherdstown, where it's all new all the time. Plus: thoughts on the Oskar Eustis bombshell and what it says about our role in the movement.
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
A collaboration between the Cherry Lane Theatre and Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker, the collective offers six writers a nine-month fellowship culminating in a series of readings.
Diane Paulus’s new staging at American Repertory Theater—starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany—promises a non-literal approach to Ionesco’s allegory about fascis…
Arkansas Rep artistic director Steve H. Broadnax III has written a new show about a local hero who went from a sharecropper's farm to the heights of state and federal government.
Reflections from this past summer’s institute, and on the work we saw at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s New Play Conference and New Musical Theatre Conference.
As developmental spaces dwindle, the New York Stage & Film Summer Season preserves a crucial part of theatremaking: the moment when artists and audiences shape a work together.
What has he learned after leading Minneapolis's flagship theatre for the last 11 years, and what's next? Plus: a Pittsburgh check-in with Sharon Eberson.
The writer of ‘Meet the Cartozians’ chats with her leading actress about the history behind the play, the complicated effects of assimilation, and Armenian pride and trauma.
August highlights include a ban on plays, a tour interrupted, and a fight against the end of the world.
A vital yet often-overlooked disability-rights protest in San Francisco in 1977 is musicalized at Denver's Phamaly Theatre Company.
The Haitian American playwright reflects on female empowerment and her wishes for change in the industry as her play ‘Dead Girl's Quinceañera’ makes the rounds this fall.
A listing of new plays and musicals making their debuts in the U.S. in the coming month.
A first-of-its-kind 3-day outdoor Broadway music festival will feature previews of new musicals along with starry programs of musical theatre favorites.
The partnership would make DTC the official producer within the sprawling performing arts center, and in turn open its venues to theatre programming.
A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, the playwright reflects on community and responsibility with 'The People of Pompeii.'
We could all use a bit of the enthusiasm, imagination, and determination I witnessed at this year's International Thespian Festival.
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
The articles in our Summer 2026 issue are underpinned by questions about who we’ve been—and who we might yet become.
CRT's latest KID Show, with the help of Dragoncillo puppetry troupe, aims to help students come out of their shells.
