The creative team behind a new musical at ACT honors their oft-disrespected Oakland home, telling a story about its overlooked tech contributions with a locally brewed hip-hop sound. Ahead of our ...

The Southwest’s TYA mainstay has been stirring kids’ imaginations, and taking their shows on the road in their region and nationally, for nearly 5 decades. Childsplay was founded in 1977 by David Saar ...

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. “I’m always wrestling with things. They ...

This piece was originally written for and posted on BroadwayWorld. It is republished here with permission. Theatremakers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of ...

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please join us in this mission by joining TCG, ...

Nothing escapes Kelli O’Hara. When she sings “To Build a Home” from The Bridges of Madison County, memory rolls across her eyes; each note becomes a tree, a station, a life. You hear landscapes in her ...

‘John Proctor is the Villain,’ now on Broadway, is just one in a spate of recent plays that offer feminist correctives to ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’ They are among the most famous words ...

One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...

The world outside can’t help but enter the classroom, which offers both a challenge and an opportunity to make theatre training more meaningful. Last fall I co-wrote an article for HowlRound Theatre ...

An interview with the playwright of ‘Eureka Day’ about creating the play in a pre-Covid world and seeing the show anew through a changed society. Jonathan Spector’s play Eureka Day follows several ...

Morgan Jenness, a force of nature who nurtured and inspired countless theatremakers as a dramaturg, agent, and activist, died on Nov. 12 at the age of 72. Taylor Mac’s full memorial tribute is here; ...