Playwright Justin Tanner, author of “Pot Mom,” “Little Theatre” and “Voice Lessons,” is one of the signal voices of L.A.’s wild and free intimate theater scene. He has not only written what might be ...

The Cherry Lane Theatre has announced its Playwrights Collective, a nine-month developmental program under the direction of playwright Annie Baker, designed to support rising playwrights through ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. In “Marjorie Prime” and other works, Jordan Harrison delivers sweet-bitter anatomies of human connection mediated through technology destined to supersede us. In “Marjorie Prime ...

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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 ...

Off Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons is being sued for discrimination over a one-night discount during its run of Nazareth Hassan’s Practice. A New Jersey–based musician named Kevin Lynch ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit, against the prominent Off Broadway theater, is backed by Edward Blum, who has long challenged race-based policies. Playwrights called it ...

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 ...

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 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 ...