Seattle playwright returns with compelling, wild new show

Wife of Headless Man” is a compelling swerve from one of the city’s finest playwrights, pushing his gift for meticulously ...
The New York Times

New York Theater Settles Case That Argued Discounts Were Discriminatory

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit objected to a “BIPOC night” program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit. By Michael Paulson A prominent nonprofit theater ...
NPR

Playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory discuss their newest play

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades. A new ...
The New Yorker

Two Playwrights Tackle Father Figures

If you’ve been going to the theatre lately, you’ve seen plenty of what I’ve started to think of as “piñata plays.” In this sort of story, a big family gets together and there are a lot of secrets. For ...
The Boston Globe

Efforts to erase Black history can’t overcome the Black plays that have masterfully depicted it for decades

President Trump and his minions seem intent on doing everything they can to minimize the singular nature of the Black experience throughout American history, especially the role that racism has played ...
The Boston Globe

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s ‘Zabel in Exile’ is a family affair

Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s love for theater started early. As a child, her father, R.N. Sandberg, a playwright and theater professor, took her to one of his classes at Cornish College of the ...
WBEZ

Playwright Tracy Letts on reviving ‘Bug’ on Broadway and putting ‘Midwest pragmatism’ on stage

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Playwright Tracy Letts on reviving ‘Bug’ on Broadway and putting ‘Midwest pragmatism’ on stage

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The Conversation

Philly theaters unite to stage 3 plays by Pulitzer‑winning playwright James Ijames

James and I worked at Villanova University together for 6 years. I am still in touch with him. Ijames, 46, was born in North Carolina and attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his ...
The Arts Desk

First Person: Playwright Bill Rosenfield on carrying Noel Coward's legacy into the 21st century

After a few false starts trying to dive into the play, I found a deeply satisfying solution: I retyped the play in its entirety: not just reading it passively and taking notes, but actually writing ...
Los Angeles Times

Justin Tanner plunges into family trauma in his solo show ‘My Son the Playwright’ at Rogue Machine

Playwright Justin Tanner, author of “Pot Mom,” “Little Theatre” and “Voice Lessons,” is one of the signal voices of L.A.’s wild and free intimate theater scene. He has not only written what might be ...