This month Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he’s not an actor from Tom Hanks. Each month on The Subtext, Brian speaks ...

Cloning presents plenty of technological and moral hurdles, but if those could be cleared, I can easily name some candidates for duplication: audience members at the Contemporary American Theater ...

NEW YORK CITY: The Public Theater has announced that artistic director Oskar Eustis will step down when his current contract expires, July 31, 2028, which will also mark Eustis’ 70th birthday. Eustis ...

As developmental spaces dwindle, the New York Stage & Film Summer Season preserves a crucial part of theatremaking: the moment when artists and audiences shape a work together. As people piled into ...

Diane Paulus’s new staging at American Repertory Theater—starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany—promises a non-literal approach to Ionesco’s allegory about fascism. “When I was a ...

A collaboration between the Cherry Lane Theatre and Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker, the collective offers six writers a nine-month fellowship culminating in a series of readings. Banna Desta ...

Arkansas Rep artistic director Steve H. Broadnax III has written a new show about a local hero who went from a sharecropper’s farm to the heights of state and federal government. Steve H. Broadnax III ...

Everyone who’s ever gone through the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center talks about how life-changing it is. And truthfully, there is nowhere else like NCI. As a person ...

Amid the AIDS crisis, lives unravel, angels descend, and America stands at a crossroads. Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches is a breathtaking theatrical epic about love, ...

A wickedly funny coming-of-age story. Five high school girls, fueled by pop music, reclaim their voices as they make the case against a problematic “hero” in Kimberly Belflower’s twisty, modern ...

Trapped by the monotony of everyday life, a young dreamer climbs to the rooftop in search of something more. Tennessee Williams’s Stairs to the Roof is a poetic fable about hope, escape, and the ...

Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals. Patten has said that she decided to continue to play Jo to honor all the queer people who ...