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At Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit, playwright Steve Yockey tells a new horror comedy about a couple caught between classes. The script may be clean, but the characters end up anything but. As a ...

2 playwrights talk to theatremakers in the West Bank and Gaza, who are continuing their resistance to occupation with their art and their witness. The Wisconsin theatre just announced 6 new plays, to ...

An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...

Karin Coonrod explains why ‘King Lear’ is apocalyptic but not bleak, and a new staging of an iconic film returns it to its theatrical roots. The royal “we” reportedly dates to the 12th-century reign ...

The Dallas-based playwright and theatre leader has an eye and ear for detail, including in his new play about Malcolm X and Redd Foxx.

Following is an excerpt from the program notes for Wonder, a new musical by Sarah Ruhl, Chad King, and Ian Axel adapted from R.J. Palacio’s popular book, now running at American Repertory Theater in ...

The playwright talks about how she channeled her anger about our nation’s gun violence epidemic into an audacious, imaginative play seen through the eyes of a child. TAMILLA WOODARD: When I read this ...

This New Jersey company commissions and stages topical new plays but doesn’t claim ‘world premiere’ status, giving playwrights a safe place to work and students a place to learn about new-work ...

The Majestic Theatre opened in Chicago’s then-tallest building on New Year’s Day, 1906. Occupying the lower floors of the Majestic Building, which also housed a hotel, the theatre was designed by ...

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts). Our first episode of 2026 features an interview with Dallas Theater ...

Is it hard to be a woman designer in the theatre? That the question keeps getting asked is part of the answer. A review of ‘The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder,’ by Gilbert A. Harrison, Ticknor ...