8,537 stories by "American Theatre Editors"
After taking on Homer with 'An Iliad,' Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare tackle the Bible for Chicago's Court Theater---and find that the Scriptures can give as good as they get.
Families both fictive and real, and our alternately shared and shirked responsibility to our fellow humans, related or not, are among the themes highlighted this week onstage.
The Pennsylvania theatre includes dramas by Laura Schellhardt and Zak Berkman, a new Musketeers musical, a Jane Austen adaptation and more.
The New Jersey musical-theater company plans premieres of 'A Bronx Tale' and 'Bandstand' and revivals of 'Pump Boys' and 'West Side Story.'
A Chicago troupe explores a new way to build short-play festivals around a theme: taking inspiration from seminal rock albums.
Tina Packer tracks the Bard's growth via his female characters, and James Grissom tracks down divas who alternately inspired and frustrated Williams.
Director Chuck Smith curates an August Wilson Celebration, with readings of all 10 of the Century Cycle plays and little-heard Wilson poetry.
Her new play unfolds like a detective story, which is only fitting, since the playwright doesn't map out her work but discovers it as she writes.
The songwriters of the Disney film join playwright Peter Parnell to reenvision the story as a tale of lust and deformity.
Births, deaths, debuts and bans of bygone Marches.
Diversity and inclusion are more than just values and talking points; they require and entail a specific series of actions.
Like a cocktail with your classics? Troupes are attracting new audiences by mixing sauce with Shakespeare---and even some purists would like another round.
Conor McPherson's 'The Night Alive,' Dominique Morisseau's 'Sunset Baby' and Laura Eason's 'Sex With Strangers' will kick off the new season.
The former executive vice president Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami will join the Denver company in a pivotal leadership role.
Season to include world premieres by Karen ZacarÃas and Lauren Gunderson, revivals of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'The Secret Garden,' and a new play about Satchel Paige.
Ayad Ahktar and Emily Simoness speak, and Benj Pasek and Justin Paul sing, about the future of theatre at the fourth annual TEDxBroadway.
The L.A. 99-Seat Theatre wars get a full airing with special guest Isaac Butler, and the editors have some recommendations.
In kicking off the Bard's 'Henry VI' trilogy and closing with a Caesarian double bill, the troupe puts its ensemble talent front and center.
Tommy Smith's new play at the Echo Theater Company moves along 3 tracks as it follows 3 great classical musicians and their chaotic love lives.
The college's Beinecke Library is proud to present an award to the Brooklyn-based playwright, one of three dramatists given the prestigious $150,000 prize.
The 20th festival plans developmental stagings of new plays by Jerry Lieblich, Kate E. Ryan and Jacklyn Backhaus.
Fantasy and mythology cross-breed with early American history in Nathan Allen's ambitious three-play series, not at last running in repertory.
Expanding its offerings to a second week, the Denver Center's annual new-play meeting gives featured writers more time to get their plays in shape---many of them for the mainstage.
The small Chicago theatre, newly affiliated with Actors Equity, plans an ambitious slate of new plays by Madhuri Shekar, Charise Castro Smith and Callie Kimball.
Suzan-Lori Parks's Civil War-era epic receives the $100,000 prize for a play inspired by American history.
