Matthew Lombardo’s “When Playwrights Kill” begins at the Huntington Theatre with a young guy telling an anecdote about Neil Simon and Mary Tyler Moore. You might expect that a Neil Simon play is ...

For a new playwright, staging an Off-Broadway show is nearly impossible. Even getting anyone to read your work can be a huge challenge. But not for Annie Baker, who staged nine plays before she turned ...

This week, San Diego’s Playwrights Project presents its 41st Plays by Young Writers festival, with readings of five plays written by California middle and high school students from San Diego to ...

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 ...

Playwrights’ Center celebrates a new, bigger space at the border of St. Paul and Minneapolis to house internationally acclaimed writers and nurture their work to the stage. MinnPost’s journalists are ...

After years of planning and construction, the nationally recognized Playwrights’ Center has officially moved to St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone and is ready to open to the public this weekend. 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 ...

In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of shows including the ...

The New Play Festival offers a breadth of entertainment through a collection of short plays ranging from 10–30 minutes in length. Audience members will gain a first look at emerging playwrights while ...

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Theatre in Ghana has long served as an avenue for storytelling, cultural expression, and social commentary. From colonial times to the present, playwrights have used the stage to reflect the realities ...