Victoria Lynne Barclay started to write plays when she lost her accent. “Believe it or not,” she told me one afternoon in late May, “my family don’t think I sound Scottish anymore.” Camping starts ...

For two nights (July 7-8), the immersive theatrical experience Building promises to transform Pioneer Works, an art-and-science nonprofit in Red Hook, Brooklyn, into “an exploratory portrait of 1970s ...

In its ’80s IP retro rush, is Broadway’s 2025-26 season simply offering brand-name escapism—or finding a reflection of, and a response to, our current age of anxiety? The 1980s promised us two ...

Signed by 250 Native and non-Native artists, the new effort and alliance calls on U.S. institutional theatre to produce Native-authored work and engage in authentic collaborations. NATIONWIDE: A new ...

When the resident company model was more prevalent in U.S. theatres, actors had the chance to put down roots in a community. Is that dream over? Rodney Witherspoon II started his post-college career ...

“I love watching people play music,” the director Rachel Chavkin wrote me in an email this week. That makes two of us. Moreno’s casting definitely makes musical sense: Blues, jazz, soul, and old-time ...

MILWAUKEE: Milwaukee Repertory Theater has announced that its new-play development program has doubled in size and funding to $2 million, thanks to a $1 million gift from David Herro and Jay Franke.

*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...

To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...

Our annual Top 10/Top 20 lists offer invaluable snapshots of the American theatre’s evolving tastes, but programming choices aren’t made in a vacuum, of course. Which shows get lots of productions has ...

We’ve seen the No Kings marches and other coordinated protests against the current presidential administration and its policies. Now artists and culture workers are getting in on the act with ...

An Asian American theatremaker reflects on the intent and impact of Broadway’s ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ and the precedent its latest casting decision may set. AAPAC noted MHE’s South Korea setting, and ...