NEW YORK CITY: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) has announced Kamilah Long as its new director of advancement and philanthropic engagement, a new leadership role for the national organization for ...

An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...

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 ...

I am about to start rehearsals for my first production when my body stops working. It is 2016; I am an MFA playwriting student at Yale, and my muscles have seized up so intensely that I can no longer ...

Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...

Since 2000, thousands of productions of ‘The Laramie Project’ have shared Matthew Shepard’s story with communities around the world. Head writer and assistant director Leigh Fondakowski measures the ...

Given my background making theatre that explores how new technologies are affecting human culture and cognition—a body of work I call “algorithmic theatre”—it seemed inevitable that I would eventually ...

Tapestry of American Black Theatre is a new series chronicling the too often forgotten contributions of Black theatremakers in the U.S. This first article tells the story of the Negro Ensemble Company ...

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 ...

Since the start of the regional theatre movement, most nonprofit professional theatres in the United States of America have been led by white male artistic directors. Then, about a decade ago, ...

Karen Olivo (she/they) has walked away from Broadway before. In 2013, after winning a Tony for their role in a revival of West Side Story, they uprooted their career and moved to Madison, Wisc., to ...

One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...