And now I do too. I clearly hear his voice, see that sparkle in his eyes, “Hey, man. How you doin’?” I would tell him, and he would say, “Wow, let’s talk.” And we did so many, many times. Woodie was ...

This edition includes milestones related to Langston Hughes, Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop, Tennessee Williams, and Lucas Hnath. The American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) disassociated ...

A pre-teen is forced into a mother’s role. That’s one way to read Wendy’s story in the classic J.M. Barrie tales of Peter Pan and the Darling family. And that’s one spin that Harley Brooke Walker, MFA ...

In this moment of collective upheaval, the existing hierarchies within theatrical practice are reaching their shelf life and it’s time to unearth alternatives. It’s becoming difficult to build deep ...

A new musical about a gay teen’s coming-out journey premieres at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. It’s 2015, and 16-year-old Mike is planning to come out as gay to his family and high school ...

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. Scholarship winners included Nia Alsop, the musical theatre recipient of the Fran Morganstern Davis scholarship, given to a full-time ...

The maker of the original film reflects on how his gory fable about vagina dentata became a savagely witty stage musical by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson. Following is the foreword to the ...

A just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. At American Theatre our mission is to provide coverage of the nonprofit theatre, in the U.S. and around the world. We’re 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 ...

To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...

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 ...

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 ...