Editors unveil AT’s annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays and Top 20 Most Produced Playwrights lists and chat with Irene Sankoff, David Hein, and the ubiquitous ...
In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act opened up the U.S. to immigrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, abolishing “national origins” quotas that had previously favored European countries. Set eight years ...
As we look forward to this year’s theatre season across the U.S., our Fall issue also takes stock of lessons from history. I can still recall the first few times my kids started to begin sentences ...
At the 29th Philadelphia Fringe Festival, now running through Sept. 28, the city itself is both audience and performer. Programming director Mikaela Boone describes the festival’s mandate as creating ...
At American Theatre, we believe that the most important decision we make is whose stories we tell. Our editorial values are accountability, advocacy, creativity, diversity, excellence, innovation, ...
Ahead of a fall tour of the new concert musical ‘Dear Everything,’ V (formerly Eve Ensler) reflects on the climate change crisis, the ‘vagina that could,’ and her vision for collective action through ...
5 plays about the history of gender nonconformity created by TGNC artists have been commissioned, which the artists will spend the next 2 years developing. “I was really excited to amplify artists ...
Checking in with Luis Alfaro about the end of USC’s MFA in Dramatic Writing, plus other fall education updates. I hope you all are settling into September. It sure feels like New York flipped a switch ...
The vaccination-themed farce, born at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company and acclaimed nationwide, is back with a lot of its original team—but not at the original theatre, which has shut down. A year ...
A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her work. A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by ...
Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals. Patten has said that she decided to continue to play Jo to honor all the queer people who ...
*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...