“Sing out, Louise!” my mom would call to me when I left the house in the morning. Not every day—that would have been a bit much. But if I had an audition or interview or a class presentation, she’d ...

Evan Yionoulis has always been a woman of the theatre, growing up from the kind of child who wrote and directed the school play, to an undergraduate who could turn a dining hall into a theatrical ...

Sometimes prose isn’t enough; artivism requires something louder. Carissa Atallah’s “part play, part slam poem” Brown Face embraces that need head-on. From May 7 through 24, this world premiere with ...

CHICAGO: American Theatre magazine, The Understudy, and Pocket Theatrics have announced Re:working Chicago Theatre, a monthly roundtable series, beginning in July and concluding in November, that will ...

The Washington Square Players, a short-lived theatre troupe in New York City, produced The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. The troupe’s core belief was that the American theatre needed to be free of ...

The Last Five Years follows Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, who recant their five year relationship and doomed marriage. Support American Theatre: a just ...

The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein, “The Sound of Music” is often described as the world’s most-beloved musical. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including “Climb Ev’ry ...

This piece is one in a series on disability and theatre. Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character.

Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...

In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...

May Adrales began pursuing a career as a director when she was fired from a political think tank. In fact, her theatre work may have cost her the day job: She was writing and directing a play for the ...

This list was culled from 1,446 productions at 293 TCG member theatres, plus 156 productions at non-member and commercial theatres. As always, we did not tally productions authored by Shakespeare, of ...