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 ...

For both those from the island and in the diaspora, the gathering affirmed and clarified the bridge-building power of theatre and its makers. I remember sitting in my childhood bedroom, spinning in a ...

The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action. John Adams once predicted ...

A radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 a.m. mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the “Holy Spirit” through the lens of the Divine Feminine. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving ...

This article is adapted from Survivors of a Future That Never Happened: A Cultural Review, 1974-1994 (Montreal Publishing), available on Bookshop.org and Amazon.com. “The Theatre of Images”—a term ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...

First it was cancelled, then it wasn’t, then the students couldn’t talk about it. Now that the show actually went on, it’s worth asking: Were this school district’s precautions about safety or ...

As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...

“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 ...