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#tbt Our 2022 interview with Suzan-Lori Parks, in which she gave this amazing answer. www.americantheatre.org/2022/10/18/s...
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#tbt Our 2022 interview with Suzan-Lori Parks, in which she gave this amazing answer. www.americantheatre.org/2022/10/18/s...
Today is your last chance to enjoy our Somos Teatro book sale! Through Wednesday, October 15, we’re offering 50% off must-read titles by amazing Latine playwrights! Use the code HHM50 to unlock savings. https://indiepubs.com/collections/hispanic-heritage-month
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today is your last chance to enjoy our Somos Teatro book sale! Through Wednesday, October 15, we’re offering 50% off must-read titles by amazing Latine playwrights! Use the code HHM50 to unlock savings. https://indiepubs.com/collections/hispanic-heritage-month
You've got one week left to take advantage of our Somos Teatro book sale! Through Wednesday, October 15, we’re offering 50% off must-read titles by amazing Latine playwrights! Use the code HHM50 to unlock savings. https://indiepubs.com/collections/hispanic-heritage-month
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
You've got one week left to take advantage of our Somos Teatro book sale! Through Wednesday, October 15, we’re offering 50% off must-read titles by amazing Latine playwrights! Use the code HHM50 to unlock savings. https://indiepubs.com/collections/hispanic-heritage-month
SAVE THE DATE: Join TCG on Saturday, Oct. 25 for "Preludes, Interludes, and Epilogues" to celebrate the release of "The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley" at The Second Floor in Chicago.
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SAVE THE DATE: Join TCG on Saturday, Oct. 25 for "Preludes, Interludes, and Epilogues" to celebrate the release of "The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley" at The Second Floor in Chicago.
Join Theatre Communications Group and the Center for Fiction on Wednesday, October 8 for an evening with award-winning playwright, librettist, and author David Henry Hwang to celebrate the release of Yellow Face, the Broadway Edition. Register here: centerforfiction.org/event/story-...
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Join Theatre Communications Group and the Center for Fiction on Wednesday, October 8 for an evening with award-winning playwright, librettist, and author David Henry Hwang to celebrate the release of Yellow Face, the Broadway Edition. Register here: centerforfiction.org/event/story-...
Just announced: a new Off-Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES, starring Kara Young and Nicholas Braun. Here's our April 2011 Q&A with Joseph when we published the full playscript. (Pictured: Pablo Schreiber & Jennifer Carpenter.) www.americantheatre.org/2011/04/01/s...
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just announced: a new Off-Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES, starring Kara Young and Nicholas Braun. Here's our April 2011 Q&A with Joseph when we published the full playscript. (Pictured: Pablo Schreiber & Jennifer Carpenter.) www.americantheatre.org/2011/04/01/s...
Learn more about where Come From Away will be seen in the U.S. and which of Gunderson's plays are being produced in the graphics below!
September 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Learn more about where Come From Away will be seen in the U.S. and which of Gunderson's plays are being produced in the graphics below!
TODAY! We announce the most-produced plays and playwrights of the season! Make sure you tune in on Facebook at 4pm ET!
September 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
TODAY! We announce the most-produced plays and playwrights of the season! Make sure you tune in on Facebook at 4pm ET!
We encourage you to read the whole column, but here are a few charts, based on data from our season listings, that show the theatre field much closer to gender parity for playwrights than it's ever been. www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/11/g...
September 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We encourage you to read the whole column, but here are a few charts, based on data from our season listings, that show the theatre field much closer to gender parity for playwrights than it's ever been. www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/11/g...
And in 2016, Mikhail Baryshnikov graced our cover in Wilson's production of "Letter to a Man." In this Q&A, Baryshnikov talks about his work in avant-garde theatre, including with Wilson www.americantheatre.org/2016/02/23/m...
July 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
And in 2016, Mikhail Baryshnikov graced our cover in Wilson's production of "Letter to a Man." In this Q&A, Baryshnikov talks about his work in avant-garde theatre, including with Wilson www.americantheatre.org/2016/02/23/m...
The visionary theatre and opera director Robert Wilson has died at 83. American Theatre covered his work from practically our first issue, in 1984, to as recently as 2016. The following thread features a few gems from our archives:
July 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The visionary theatre and opera director Robert Wilson has died at 83. American Theatre covered his work from practically our first issue, in 1984, to as recently as 2016. The following thread features a few gems from our archives:
#tbt Our 2008 cover story Q&A with Taylor Mac about politics, performance, and the difference between a Fool and a drag queen. www.americantheatre.org/2008/11/01/g...
June 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#tbt Our 2008 cover story Q&A with Taylor Mac about politics, performance, and the difference between a Fool and a drag queen. www.americantheatre.org/2008/11/01/g...
"In 'John Proctor,' these young girls go through so much. So I say to them, 'You know, it's not an option not to go there, but how can I support you in the fact that you need to do that?'" - director Danya Taymor, on our most recent Offscript episode
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May 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"In 'John Proctor,' these young girls go through so much. So I say to them, 'You know, it's not an option not to go there, but how can I support you in the fact that you need to do that?'" - director Danya Taymor, on our most recent Offscript episode
www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/13/o...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/13/o...
Rob Ulin has been awarded the 2025 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for his play JUDGEMENT DAY. The award, which recognizes the work of an emerging playwright who has not yet received a major New York production or a major national award, includes a $3,000 prize.
May 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Rob Ulin has been awarded the 2025 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for his play JUDGEMENT DAY. The award, which recognizes the work of an emerging playwright who has not yet received a major New York production or a major national award, includes a $3,000 prize.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been awarded the 2025 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for his play PURPOSE. The award, which recognizes an outstanding script that premiered in a professional production outside of New York City, includes a $25,000 cash prize.
May 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been awarded the 2025 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for his play PURPOSE. The award, which recognizes an outstanding script that premiered in a professional production outside of New York City, includes a $25,000 cash prize.
The language used to rescind their grants was as follows:
May 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The language used to rescind their grants was as follows:
PRIMARY TRUST playwright Eboni Booth will appear the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn on April 16 at 7 pm, in conversation with Heidi Schreck, and with excerpts performed by William Jackson Harper and Luke Wygodny. Eboni will sign copies of the new TCG edition of her Pulitzer-winning play.
April 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
PRIMARY TRUST playwright Eboni Booth will appear the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn on April 16 at 7 pm, in conversation with Heidi Schreck, and with excerpts performed by William Jackson Harper and Luke Wygodny. Eboni will sign copies of the new TCG edition of her Pulitzer-winning play.
How many theatres do you know? Get acquainted with some of the range and variety of companies making vital stage work in the U.S. via our regular feature, Know a Theatre. www.americantheatre.org/category/fea...
April 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
How many theatres do you know? Get acquainted with some of the range and variety of companies making vital stage work in the U.S. via our regular feature, Know a Theatre. www.americantheatre.org/category/fea...
Welcome spring with the latest issue of AMERICAN THEATRE, now on its way to mailboxes and theatre bookstores. Don’t miss “The Check-In," and subscribe AmericanTheatre.org/Join.
COVER REVEAL: Dereks Thomas, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Jihan Haddad in “Someone Will Remember Us.” (Photo by Mark Turek)
COVER REVEAL: Dereks Thomas, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Jihan Haddad in “Someone Will Remember Us.” (Photo by Mark Turek)
March 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Welcome spring with the latest issue of AMERICAN THEATRE, now on its way to mailboxes and theatre bookstores. Don’t miss “The Check-In," and subscribe AmericanTheatre.org/Join.
COVER REVEAL: Dereks Thomas, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Jihan Haddad in “Someone Will Remember Us.” (Photo by Mark Turek)
COVER REVEAL: Dereks Thomas, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Jihan Haddad in “Someone Will Remember Us.” (Photo by Mark Turek)
Our Spring 2025 print issue will soon arrive in mailboxes, and we’re rolling out the first piece online! Colleen Hammond reports that, as the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data from TCG shows we’re not out of the woods yet.
www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/19/o...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/19/o...
March 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Our Spring 2025 print issue will soon arrive in mailboxes, and we’re rolling out the first piece online! Colleen Hammond reports that, as the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data from TCG shows we’re not out of the woods yet.
www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/19/o...
www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/19/o...
This Women's History Month, fill your library with plays by some of today's most lauded women authors. Remember, Theatre Communications Group members get 40% off of all titles on Indie Pubs.
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March 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This Women's History Month, fill your library with plays by some of today's most lauded women authors. Remember, Theatre Communications Group members get 40% off of all titles on Indie Pubs.
indiepubs.com/collections/...
indiepubs.com/collections/...
Congrats to Brittani Samuel, who just won the 2023-24 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her reviews in The New York Times and Broadway News and her work as co-editor of the Obie-winning theatre review site 3Views. english.cornell.edu/news/freelan...
February 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Congrats to Brittani Samuel, who just won the 2023-24 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her reviews in The New York Times and Broadway News and her work as co-editor of the Obie-winning theatre review site 3Views. english.cornell.edu/news/freelan...
TCG Books has an exciting event upcoming (Feb. 26) with Ellen McLaughlin and Kathleen Chalfant to commemorate the publication of 'The Greek Plays.' Register at this link: centerforfiction.org/event/story-...
February 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
TCG Books has an exciting event upcoming (Feb. 26) with Ellen McLaughlin and Kathleen Chalfant to commemorate the publication of 'The Greek Plays.' Register at this link: centerforfiction.org/event/story-...
Christina Anderson and Mfoniso Udofia have received the 2024 Steinberg Playwright Awards, a.k.a. the "Mimis," in the amount of $100,000 each. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust gives these each year to 2 outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights.
February 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Christina Anderson and Mfoniso Udofia have received the 2024 Steinberg Playwright Awards, a.k.a. the "Mimis," in the amount of $100,000 each. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust gives these each year to 2 outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights.
The death of the irreplaceable theatrical auteur Richard Foreman last week led us back into our archives. We will be publishing more on him soon but for now, the following thread contains some choice Foreman pieces from our shelves.
January 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The death of the irreplaceable theatrical auteur Richard Foreman last week led us back into our archives. We will be publishing more on him soon but for now, the following thread contains some choice Foreman pieces from our shelves.