The 95-year-old actor reflects on her rich and rewarding stage career, and the life it drew from and made for her. For more than 70 years, Lois Smith has been delivering performances that have the ...

The complete script of Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust appears in our Spring 2024 issue. The play, about a lonely, full-grown man with an imaginary friend in a small town outside Rochester, N.Y., had its ...

Jeremy O. Harris talks about the sexual politics of white supremacy, and about how he finds humor in horror (and vice versa). Jeremy O. Harris. (Photo by Andre D. Wagner for the New York Times) TONYA ...

As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...

The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned. The Sundance Theatre Program never had a proper interment or ...

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.

The 95-year-old actor reflects on her rich and rewarding stage career, and the life it drew from and made for her. The D.C. theatre’s incoming artistic director reflects on his path to leadership, the ...

This piece was originally written for and posted on BroadwayWorld. It is republished here with permission. Theatremakers have a “show must go on” spirit. So it’s no surprise that the vast majority of ...

It was a refrain Kate Powers heard repeatedly as she began to knock on the (digital) doors of corrections facilities throughout Minnesota in early 2017, attempting to get a foot in the door for her ...

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 ...

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 ...

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...