Edward Torres and Archana Vaidya take over as interim leaders of the embattled company as it seeks to reestablish itself in Chicago’s theatre scene. “I was born and raised here. This is my city, and ...

How 2 Russian directors and 1 American one are making Chekhov’s work speak to the moment, and how a seasoned community-based theatremaker is having a ball on Broadway. “We’re going to produce Chekhov ...

“In any performance we create, we’re calling into existence things that existed already.” Raquel Torre invokes numerous references as we speak about the theatricality of February’s “Benito Bowl,” when ...

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. Now in its ninth year, the Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission was created to nurture emerging playwrights with an emphasis on ...

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts). On this episode, we talk to Willem Dafoe, who’s just announced the ...

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 ...

See How They Run is a classic British farce bursting with mistaken identities and nonstop chaos. In a quiet WWII vicarage, a soldier, a German POW, a Russian spy, and multiple clergymen collide, ...

As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet. Sarah Clare Corporandy’s chest clenched with anxiety as the first lockdown orders were issued ...

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 ...

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 ...

Theatres are taking a hard look at a well-worn patron model, and coming to different conclusions about its usefulness. When Amy Kaissar wrote her graduate thesis on the topic of nonprofit theatre ...

This article is adapted from Survivors of a Future That Never Happened: A Cultural Review, 1974-1994 (Montreal Publishing), available on Bookshop.org and Amazon.com. “The Theatre of Images”—a term ...