A week before opening night, tensions spilled over offstage, with the show’s producing team temporarily prohibiting Stephen ...

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol ...

Shawnee Playhouse will present the Shawnee Original Playwright Series Theatre Festival in August 2026, showcasing new plays ...

Playwright Matthew López made history by becoming the first Latino to win the Tony Award for best play. On stage at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday night, López paid tribute to “three queer men” ...

Playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney has been named artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse. The appointment, which is effective immediately, places one of the ...

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