American playwrights are embracing the nation’s complexity. Will audiences answer the call?

Democracy is in crisis. But writers such as Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, are stepping up ...
The Yorkshire Post

Yorkshire playwright John Godber at 70: 'My writing is still for the underdogs'

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The Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn playwright Bess Wohl wins Tony Award for Best Play for ‘Liberation’

Only four women have ever won the Tony Award for Best Play, and two of them are native Brooklynites. Brooklyn Heights-based playwright Bess Wohl made history Sunday night when she clinched the prize ...
KTLA

‘This school is f—ing ridiculous’: Student goes viral for veering off script during graduation speech

A student’s graduation speech has gone viral after he went off script, calling his school’s entire student body “oppressed youth” and accusing the school of being “built on racism, sexism and ...
Wall Street Journal

For Her Debut Novel, a Racy Playwright Mines Her Own High-Profile Breakup

Lila Raicek has always been preoccupied with desire and adultery. In her plays and TV scripts, characters lie, cheat and speculate about other people’s sex lives. “My Master Builder,” a moody ...
WLRN

From the Grove, For the Grove: A local playwright’s mission to revive neighborhood theater

For Coconut Grove-based playwright and producer William Hector, a theater festival in the neighborhood was no coincidence. A love for the arts and community, bred in the Grove, set him off on a ...
Variety

‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’ Sets Cast: Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood Officially Return, Plus Jamie Dornan as Aragorn and More

Middle-Earth came to Las Vegas as part of Warner Bros.’ CinemaCon presentation Tuesday. The studio revealed several cast members for the upcoming “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” directed ...
The Boston Globe

‘When Playwrights Kill’ is a go-for-broke blast

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 ...
The New York Times

New York Theater Settles Case That Argued Discounts Were Discriminatory

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit objected to a “BIPOC night” program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit. By Michael Paulson A prominent nonprofit theater ...
Playbill

Newly Created Godfather Prize Will Recognize Asian American Playwrights

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) has created a new national, annual award for playwrights: The Godfather Prize for Playwriting. Each year, the award will honor one Asian ...
Asia Society

Storied Women: Asian American Playwrights in Conversation

New York City welcomes a bountiful gathering of Off-Broadway stage productions this Spring, focusing on sisterhood, motherhood, and family: Chinese Republicans (Alex Lin, Roundabout Theatre), Meat ...