"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 ...

Cults have seldom been so robustly represented in popular culture. We have the Zizians, the Sarah Lawrence sex cult, Nxivm, and the cult of Mother God, with each dutifully unpicked in articles and ...

Cleage is known for her transformative plays centering on Black women's experiences. Pearl Cleage, an acclaimed writer known for her emphasis on Black feminist ideology, now reigns as a 2025 recipient ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. For 46 years, Playwrights’ Center — the artistic launching pad of some of the ...

One of the beams supporting the vibrant theater scene here in South Florida is the number of local playwrights we have in the region. So it’s not entirely surprising that as the “season” starts ...

You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years an experimental period, when ethical and legal considerations about where and how to acquire training data ...

The theater world is mourning after an award-winning playwright on the rise was killed in an apartment fire in Smyrna, Georgia, authorities believe was set intentionally. On Wednesday, September 3, ...

SMYRNA, Ga. — Award-winning playwright Olivia Matthews was tragically killed in a fire that investigators say was intentionally set at her apartment in Smyrna. Fire investigators are offering a reward ...