Thursday, August 27, 2026
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Featuring more than 30 short plays by women+ playwrights, the new anthology is also a civic initiative activating theatres nationwide before the fall midterms.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2026
The three-week celebration will bring discounted tickets, free pop-up performances at airports and metro stations, industry events, and community programming to the D.C. area.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:22PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2026
In the early 2000s, some major U.S. theatres dedicated spaces in their buildings to producing new work by new playwrights. Where are those programs—and those writers—now?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2026
Western Washington University's summer program brings students together with guest writers for two weeks of collaborative development.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2026
A new report, part of the Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, spotlights promising solutions to long-standing artistic challenges at a Minnesota theatre compa…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:45AM[SHARE]NYC’s Puerto Rican theatre, a new Wallace Foundation report shows, faces structural challenges—and has much to offer the field.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:14AM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2026
Counter-programming the semiquincentennial with an older and deeper story that can't be untold.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]This adaptation of Sophocles’s 'Antigone' centers a Nez Perce-Cayuse family tearing itself apart over the fate of ancestral remains.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Vickie Ramirez's play explores the erasure of Indigenous women, and what it takes to claim your voice and your culture.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]This creative work from Lee Cataluna explores what Maui means to the world in the wake of the Lahaina fires.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2026
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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:43PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 13, 2026
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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2026
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…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2026
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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2026
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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:31PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2026
August highlights include a ban on plays, a tour interrupted, and a fight against the end of the world.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2026
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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:35PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2026
A listing of new plays and musicals making their debuts in the U.S. in the coming month.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The partnership would make DTC the official producer within the sprawling performing arts center, and in turn open its venues to theatre programming.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2026
We could all use a bit of the enthusiasm, imagination, and determination I witnessed at this year's International Thespian Festival.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2026
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
CRT's latest KID Show, with the help of Dragoncillo puppetry troupe, aims to help students come out of their shells.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2026
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
This busy performer-producer set out to establish a company for Asian American actors, and ended up a New York City theatre staple herself.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Hedonism, shame, aquaphobia, and memory were in the mix at Montreal's interdisciplinary theatre and dance gathering.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:34PM[SHARE]WASHINGTON, D.C.: Arena Stage artistic director Hana S. Sharif publicly announced her departure from the role on June 26, the opening night of CrazySexyCool: The TLC Musical, after just thre…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:04PM[SHARE]The artistic director’s departure, after just 3 years, from the helm of the D.C.’s flagship theatre has ignited a debate about the American theatre’s systemic challenges.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2026
A human resources tangle among tech workers is at the heart of Geetha Reddy's new comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:53AM[SHARE]This month Brian talks to the author of 'Light Switch' and 'Berrywild' about autism, mentorship, and learning to live alongside cringe.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2026
July highlights include one of the country's earliest professional theatre troupes, an Atlanta world premiere, a radical performance at Caffe Cino, and a profound perspective on slavery.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2026
The NYC nonprofit, dedicated to matching artists and small companies with affordable spaces, plans to open the new 49th Street space later this year.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2026
The Doris Duke Foundation has announced new grants to support technological infrastructure in the performing arts.
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