A Christmas Carol Online A free and thoroughly entertaining take on the Dickens classic that integrates traditional theatrical storytelling with new media, animation, and audience participation. Make ...

As the first year of TCG’s Funds for the Dolls draws to a close, we checked in with the grantees about what this support has meant—and what lies ahead. As one artistic director hands the reins to ...

In the singing land that is the musical theatre, orchestrators are too unsung. These showbiz pros do much to give a musical a distinctive sound and feel, and yet—the Tony Award for orchestrators ...

When Ron founded the Odyssey Theatre in 1969, he sought to build a permanent ensemble of actors devoted to raw, avant-garde, experimental work. He was particularly drawn to German and Eastern European ...

They are among the most famous words spoken by a woman in a canonical American play: “Attention must be paid.” It’s Linda Loman, of course, in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, admonishing her ...

In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she ...

In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...

In summer 2023, theatres around the country were still reeling in the aftermath of the Covid shutdowns of the previous few years. When New York City’s Public Theater laid off nearly 20 percent of its ...

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us ...

Jordan Harrison is a playwright, no doubt, but I also think of him as a kind of archivist of human behavior. I don’t mean that his plays are usually, or only, set in earlier eras; even when they have ...

Back in 2010, when Baltimore Center Stage artistic director Stevie Walker-Webb was, in his words, “a 20-year-old, fresh-faced baby,” he founded Jubilee Theater in Waco, Texas—a first stab at leading a ...

Joseph Medeiros crouches on the whitewashed floor of Theaterlab, a small performing arts space in Manhattan’s Garment District, gesturing at a weathered leather briefcase. “In the next pocket,” he ...