Playwrights Horizons, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway theaters and producers, is being sued by a New Jersey musician who claims that the venue’s recent discount offered to people of color is ...

San Antonio playwrights with unproduced scripts now have a new opportunity to see their work come to life. The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (GCAC) is accepting submissions for its third Teatro Salón ...

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 ...

Capital Stage will begin accepting script submissions for its annual new play festival, PLAYWRIGHTS’ REVOLUTION, from January 6 through March 6, 2026. The program focuses on identifying and developing ...

David Kranes, a prolific Utah playwright and author who explored the drama of Western landscapes and Nevada casinos, has died. Kranes died Tuesday at home in Salt Lake City, according to friends, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Characters stepping out of their plays to address an audience is hardly a new phenomenon. Playwrights have been ...

The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week. The world lost its most celebrated modern playwright over ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has spoken about integrating America’s largest education system in striking terms rarely heard from big city leaders. By Troy Closson More than 71 years ago, the United ...

I have been struggling to write a tribute to Tom Stoppard, the living playwright I admired more than any other in my professional life as a theater critic. Why was he my favorite? Whereas most ...

Tom Stoppard, whose death at age 88 was announced on Saturday, may or may not have been the greatest playwright of the past half century or so, but he was undoubtedly the most intellectually daring, ...

Tom Stoppard had already won four Tony Awards during his prolific career as a playwright when he penned what would be his final staged work, dealing with his family’s Holocaust history. Already in his ...

"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 ...