This piece is one in a series on disability and theatre. Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character.

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 ...

*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...

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In November 1985, American Theatre magazine’s second year of existence, Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice appeared in its pages. It was the first full play text the magazine had published. Below is a ...

As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...

The new two-theatre complex in San Diego is the culmination of a partnership between Cygnet Theatre and the historic preservation group Arts District Liberty Station. “The completion and opening of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a refrain Kate Powers heard repeatedly as she began to knock on the (digital) doors of corrections facilities throughout Minnesota in early 2017, attempting to get a foot in the door for her ...