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UPDATE: The Rhode Island regional theater that canceled an upcoming production of Lauren Gunderson‘s The Revolutionists following the release last week of old emails between the playwright’s husband ...

EXCLUSIVE: British playwright, screenwriter and director Alexander Zeldin has signed with CAA. The signing comes as Zeldin’s critically-acclaimed play The Other Place is about to have its New York ...

The authors in the 39th Young Playwrights Festival, presented by Pegasus Theatre Chicago. From L: Sophia Ponce, Clark Tavas, Lola Zimmerman, and Ashley Snyder Credit: Joe Gallagher In a world filled ...

Playwrights Horizons, an Off-Broadway theater, was hit with a class action on Dec. 22 in New York Southern District Court over alleged race-based discrimination. The suit, brought by Consovoy McCarthy ...

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Playwrights Horizons, alleging that the Off-Broadway theater engaged in unlawful racial discrimination by charging different ticket prices based on race ...

This story originally published May 22, 2025, in the Our Town section of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. This is one of Katy Henriksen's top stories of the year. Since originally reporting ...

His two-character work won a Pulitzer Prize and had a long Broadway run, but he never replicated its success and struggled to get his later work staged. By Trip Gabriel D.L. Coburn, whose play “The ...

It’s that time of year again, when Vulture’s critics embark on our messiest annual tradition: the finalization of our top-ten lists. Here is the best theater of 2025, according to critics Sara Holdren ...

"I'm not some kind of intellectual who's importing very special ideas into the unfamiliar terrain of the theater. I don't see it like that at all," he said. "There's something about the way the plays ...