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What If We Valued Theatre Like We Value Parks?

Imagine if we made arts and culture as free and accessible—and as beautiful—as places like Prospect Park.

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O Wendy! My Wendy!

Though it’s hardly her finest work, a new production of ‘An American Daughter’ offers a welcome chance to consider Wendy Wasserstein’s unique contributions to American theatre and beyond.

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Offscript Top 10: Kimberly Belflower & Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Play Well With...

On this annual special episode, we announce the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the coming season, and are joined by 2 of the latter for a wide-ranging conversation.

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‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ and August Wilson Top This Year’s Most-Produced...

Kimberly Belflower’s popular drama will be the most-produced play in the 2026-27 season (apart from ‘A Christmas Carol’), and Wilson will be the most-produced author (aside from Shakespeare).

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People to Watch: Mfoniso Udofia

The playwright behind the Ufot Family Cycle chats about making theatre more community-oriented and humane, and how to make Black girls fly.

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Adrienne Dawes Had to Tell Her Own Story

The playwright of 'You Are Pretty,' 'Am I White,' and 'Teen Dad' talks about growing up as a mixed-race adoptee in Texas and finding her voice as a Chicago sketch performer.

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Fugue Off: Brian Cox Plays a Well-Tempered Bach in ‘The Score’

A chat with the acclaimed actor and his wife, Nicole Ansari-Cox, onstage now in Oliver Cotton's new play at Shakespeare Theatre in D.C.

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Horton Foote Prize, Champion Playwriting Fellowship, MENA Grants, and More

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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NYC’s Theatre Row Announces New Studio Residency

4 companies will be selected to be residents at the multi-theatre complex for a 10-month season running February-November.

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Featured Contributors

A report on the NEA, and a deep dive into Hmong communities in Minneapolis.

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Can the American Theatre Unlearn Racism?

Going beyond diversity statements, antiracist theatre practices promise a liberatory future for all.

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The Sol Project Marks 10 Years With SolFest 2026

This year’s festival marks 10 years of the Sol Project, 9 years of SolFest, and 4 years of the NSP Latine Shortsfest.

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The Real Movement Was Where We Weren’t Looking

We shouldn't mistake the end of a funding arrangement for the end of the culture that funding once carried.

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Pittsburgh CLO and Pittsburgh Public to Merge as Confluence Theater

Dr. Brett Ashley Crawford and Kyle Haden will lead the newly combined organization.

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Curt Columbus Stages His ‘Getaway’ From Trinity Rep

The historic Providence theatre’s artistic director, whose last play at its leader is 'The Getaway Driver,' recalls his two-decade tenure, and talks about what's next.

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Black Theatre’s Family Reunion

Every other year since 1989, the International Black Theatre Festival has gathered theatremakers and fans for a celebration of Black artistry and excellence.

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The Time Sam Shepard Taught Playwriting Way Out West

Recruited by Padua Hills Playwrights founder Murray Mednick, Shepard joined an ad-hoc faculty in 1978 for the experimental workshop. Among his pupils: a young David Henry Hwang.

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What Else Is New: From ‘Gilgamesh’ to ‘Basquiat’

The cup overfloweth in this nationwide roundup of new stage works.

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Sun Valley Resident Playwright, Sloan Commissions, Princess Grace Awards, and...

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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TCG to Publish Flynn Center, Blackburn Prize’s ‘Women+ On the Edge of Democracy’

Featuring more than 30 short plays by women+ playwrights, the new anthology is also a civic initiative activating theatres nationwide before the fall midterms.

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