Squigs Pulls Up a Desk at Seminar, Starring Alan Rickman
It takes a brave (or foolish) young writer to entrust his work to the judgment of fearsome literary lion Leonard—especially since Leonard is played by stage-and-screen great Alan Rickm…
It takes a brave (or foolish) young writer to entrust his work to the judgment of fearsome literary lion Leonard—especially since Leonard is played by stage-and-screen great Alan Rickm…
Two years ago, Richard Bean sparked the National Theatre's first ever onstage protest amid accusations that he had written a racist play. Last night he triumphed at the Evening Standard Thea…
Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann is brought to justice in the Huntington Theatre Company world premiere of Evan M. Weiner's Captors, starring Michael Cristofer and Louis Cancelmi, whic…
The new Boston-area theater group The Pysch Drama Company will offer an edgy twist to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Under the direction of Dr. Wendy Lippe, the play will be performed at the Bo…
In "Horsedreams," a play about addiction and race at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater through Dec. 11, a long strand of white fluorescent tubes cuts across the cracked gray set. It looks …
Tony Award nominee Gabriel Byrne will stage Gerard Mannix Flynn's solo drama James X, tracing the journey of one child through Ireland's abusive institutional system, which will be p…
Thomas Bradshaw's new drama, "Burning," fails to catch fire or to cohere. But you can't accuse the practiced downtown provocateur, now represented in midtown at the New Group through Dec. 17…
The Drama Desk and the Fordham University Theatre Program present a special panel discussion Nov. 13 at 6:30 PM at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus (Pope Auditorium).
Producing high quality drama for young people has always been fraught with challenges. Writers come across all kinds of difficulties in serving their target audience, while not patronising t…
 William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" will be the next show up from graduate students at the Yale School of Drama. Louisa Proske directs a cast made up of Joshua Bermudez , Tim Brown , …
Find out how to get your hands on a copy of So You Want To Go To Drama School? published by Nick Hern Books by entering our Twitter competition.
In the first of our new Behind the Scenes how to guides, Marése O'Sullivan gives a rundown of tips and advice designed to help you apply to drama school.
DANCE REVIEW: Arena Dances premiered "Matador," an eloquent evocation of a bloody sport.
Monday, November 7, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - Samuel L. Jackson, of Broadway's THE MOUNTAINTOP, will participate in a special panel discussion presented by the Drama Desk and the Fordham Univers…
Monday, November 7, 2011 (NEW YORK, NY) - CHINGLISH playwright David Henry Hwang and leading-lady Jennifer Lim will participate in a special panel discussion presented by the Drama&nbs…
Tony Award-winning producer Daryl Roth is still aiming her production of Rupert Holmes' A Time to Kill, based on the novel by John Grisham, toward Broadway following a regional test and …
The Drama Desk and the Fordham University Theatre Program will present a special panel discussion Nov. 13 at 6:30 PM at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus (Pope Auditorium).
The Drama Desk and the Fordham University Theatre Program will present a special panel discussion at 630 PM on Sunday, November 13th, titled Anatomy of a Breakout, reflecting the remarkable …
The creators of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones -- including book writer Douglas Carter Beane, composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn, and director/choreographer Dan Knechtges -- will join the Drama…
The creators of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones -- including book writer Douglas Carter Beane, composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn, and director/choreographer Dan Knechtges -- will join the Drama…
The creators of Broadway's Lysistrata Jones -- including book writer Douglas Carter Beane, composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn, and director/choreographer Dan Knechtges -- will join the Drama…
If you’ve been watching the new ABC series Pan Am (or were a fan of Army Wives), you’ll recognize Jeremy Davidson, who takes the lead as a CIA operative in J.T. Rogers’ spy…
A Muslim-American lawyer is at the center of American Theater Company's world-premiere production of Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. The cast of the Chicago staging includes Usman Ally, Alana …
The threat to the library in Wakefield, which has 500,000 scores and 90,000 scripts, sparks outcry from arts organisationsThe biggest music and drama lending library in the UK faces closure …
At his own new Web site, Aleks Sierz, whose book Rewriting the Nation I discussed in March here, brings us up to date on plays from the last few years of new British writing for the theatre.…