They’re present in What to Send Up When It Goes Down, a work that draws its audience into communion via a conjuring circle for holding all the rage, sorrow, and grief that are regular byproducts of ...

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 ...

Every theatre company starts somewhere. Every small, grassroots arts organization and massive, multimillion-dollar producing institution has an origin story. It begins when the founders imagine the ...

In our Spring issue, we look at some long-standing structural and systemic challenges facing the regional theatre movement—and celebrate the luminous new work still being made in spite of them. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY: Bess Wohl’s Liberation has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year’s finalists are Bowl EP by Nazareth Hassan and Meet the Cartozians by Talene Monahan (to be published in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMY HERZOG: This play—it’s exquisite. I hadn’t read it before, so thank you for asking me to do this. A.K. PAYNE: I really appreciate it. I wanted to talk to you because I read 4000 Miles, and it was ...

NEW YORK CITY: The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded fellowships this year to 223 American and Canadian scientists, scholars, writers, and artists, selected from nearly 5,000 applicants. The theatre ...