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 ...
“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 ...
Each year the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize gives a $25,000 prize (and a signed Willem de Kooning print) to a woman+ playwright for an outstanding English-language play. It has typically alternated ...
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 ...
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 ...
A few hours after writer and performer Cole Escola offered this advice to LGBTQ+ viewers in a Logo TV interview, they made history as the first openly nonbinary actor to win a Tony Award for ...
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 ...
I first encountered Richard Greenberg‘s work in 1985, when I saw his comedy Life Under Water in a one-act marathon at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Rich was a recent graduate of the Yale School of ...
Featuring the transcendent Bruce Randolph Nelson, this Pulitzer Prize-nominated play takes a look at one man’s spiritual journey for solace and meaning, and his quest toward understanding — and ...
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 ...
As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet. Sarah Clare Corporandy’s chest clenched with anxiety as the first lockdown orders were issued ...