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.

Lynn Nottage returns to the top of this list, which she dominated last year as well, after popping on and off the list since 2016. She earns the top spot on the strength not only of Clyde’s, but a ...

Since the start of the regional theatre movement, most nonprofit professional theatres in the United States of America have been led by white male artistic directors. Then, about a decade ago, ...

Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...

I am about to start rehearsals for my first production when my body stops working. It is 2016; I am an MFA playwriting student at Yale, and my muscles have seized up so intensely that I can no longer ...

Douglas Turner Ward was a giant in the American theatre, but he was also my director, my mentor, my friend. In 1966, he wrote an editorial in The New York Times, titled “American Theater, for Whites ...

*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 ...

Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...

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 ...

It’s always difficult to leave home. When you call a place, especially a theatre, home, it means you’ve created a bond with it—with the people, with the building, with the art being created. Part of ...

After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded. From the rooftop of a Lincoln Park pub to the staple theatre at ...

Access consultants and artists discuss how they create sensory conscious shows for disabled folks and their families, as well as how radical inclusivity enhances theatre for everyone. Since the start ...