A playwright considers the challenges and rewards of writing for the moment.

Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...

Both in content and form, documentary theatre in the U.S. has always been at theatre's cutting edge.

Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals.

As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet.

Thanks for this thoughtful piece - one clarification is required, though: the author refers to Sondheim's anecdote of being convinced to "change the music" for "Rose's Turn" in Gypsy, but Sondheim did ...

While some companies can quickly plug the holes in their budgets for now, the ripple effects of across-the-board cutbacks to federal arts funding may be long-lasting and felt by the most vulnerable.

The complete script of Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust appears in our Spring 2024 issue. The play, about a lonely, full-grown man with an imaginary friend in a small town outside Rochester, N.Y., had its ...

New Paths Forward Some theatres are increasing venue rental and concession sales. Some are using dynamic pricing more than ever: For example, Jenkins said Jobsite’s top ticket prices can jump from $45 ...

Students and faculty reflect on returning to in-person education in acting, playwriting, tech, and more at some of the nation's college theatre programs.

One of the nation's most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work.

Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play for Arena Stage both celebrates and complicates hard-won marriage equality rights just as D.C. welcomes WorldPride festivities.