Gotham’s stage laborers aren’t just organizing existing workplaces; they’re also making their own, built on new models and partnerships. Bougie Ted, the managing director of a leading New York ...

The D.C. theatre’s incoming artistic director reflects on his path to leadership, the importance of risk-taking, and possibilities for brave new theatre. He comes from Arena Stage, where he was the ...

In My Body No Choice, Molly Smith’s final directorial venture for Arena Stage, eight of America’s most exciting female playwrights share what choice means to them, through the telling of fiction and ...

A roundup of notable publications.

Checking in with Luis Alfaro about the end of USC’s MFA in Dramatic Writing, plus other fall education updates. I hope you all are settling into September. It sure feels like New York flipped a switch ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company’s 5-decade journey from Off-Off-Broadway outlier to Broadway powerhouse has been steered all along by the same 2 leaders. Practice may be the way to get to Carnegie Hall, but the path to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals. Patten has said that she decided to continue to play Jo to honor all the queer people who ...

This is the second of two “What Is to Be Done” columns by Bobbitt; the first is here. Soooo…I probably spend 10 hours a week on board “stuff”: planning and scheduling meetings, pulling and creating ...