The first thing we did was pour a libation, but instead of water or rum, we poured names. It was morning in San Juan. I had come to TCG’s National Conference to lead a practice lab called “Writing as ...

For our guest columnist’s final column (for now), she reconnects with past students and asks teachers how they’re educating a new generation. One of the most rewarding parts of my career as a high ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH, FLA.: Launched in 2014, the New Play Exchange was designed as a way to increase the transparency and efficiency of the play-submission process. In the years since, the National New ...

The following is an excerpt from the new book Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton' by Chris Jones (published by Methuen Drama), theatre critic for the Chicago ...

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 ...

A dialogue on how students, teachers, and parents can push back against a wave of conservative legislation and intimidation that threatens to chill theatrical expression. The kooky, macabre musical ...

I first encountered Richard Greenberg‘s work in 1985, when I saw his comedy Life Under Water in a one-act marathon at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Rich was a recent graduate of the Yale School of ...

In this excerpt from ‘Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words,’ the ensemble recounts their first Broadway transfer. Doing The Grapes of Wrath for the first time helped us realize ...

A neighbor shouting from an open window may be part of the lively Washington Heights neighborhood Miranda calls home, and which he memorably theatricalized in his Tony-winning musical In the Heights.

To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...

How the Actor’s Workshop’s storied 1957 performance set the stage for collaborations between correctional facilities and U.S. theatres. It was late fall 1957 and 24-year-old Robin Wagner was getting ...

Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes. In the singing land that is the musical theatre, ...