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 ...

Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre [1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...

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. I don’t remember much of the conversations that ensued, ...

Snakes on the sidewalk. No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson movie. The snakes are real, and are just one of the seemingly endless challenges facing summer theatre companies and festivals as they ...

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 ...

Then there’s your membership program, which is quite different. Yes, and that has an online component. Membership is gated, so you have to qualify in some way. That’s a great way to reach out to many ...

Satire is what closes on Saturday night, goes an old theatrical saw, and more recently we’ve heard from some quarters that theatregoers would rather not have politics mixed in with their entertainment ...

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 ...

Paula Vogel and Tina Landau have known one another since the 1990s, the same decade Vogel’s late brother Carl and a version of herself first appeared onstage in her play The Baltimore Waltz. Later ...

The piece riffs on the lost final play of Aeschylus’s Prometheus trilogy as a way of thinking about the relationship between technology and power. On one side of the stage, everything is made by ...

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 ...

Our annual list of most-produced playwrights usually overlaps heavily with the year’s Top 10 most-produced plays list, and this year is no exception: All the authors represented on this year’s Top 10 ...