Victoria Lynne Barclay started to write plays when she lost her accent. “Believe it or not,” she told me one afternoon in late May, “my family don’t think I sound Scottish anymore.” Camping starts ...

In its ’80s IP retro rush, is Broadway’s 2025-26 season simply offering brand-name escapism—or finding a reflection of, and a response to, our current age of anxiety? The 1980s promised us two ...

“I love watching people play music,” the director Rachel Chavkin wrote me in an email this week. That makes two of us. Moreno’s casting definitely makes musical sense: Blues, jazz, soul, and old-time ...

MILWAUKEE: Milwaukee Repertory Theater has announced that its new-play development program has doubled in size and funding to $2 million, thanks to a $1 million gift from David Herro and Jay Franke.

*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY: There’s good news for theatre criticism at two of the nation’s most important outlets, The New York Times and The New Yorker. After holding the job of theatre critic and staff writer ...

The new community-powered nonprofit organization aims to serve and advance a vibrant and inclusive L.A. theatre ecosystem. The first step: a comprehensive listings website. LOS ANGELES: Theatre ...

We’ve seen the No Kings marches and other coordinated protests against the current presidential administration and its policies. Now artists and culture workers are getting in on the act with ...

A few hours after writer and performer Cole Escola offered this advice to LGBTQ+ viewers in a Logo TV interview, they made history as the first openly nonbinary actor to win a Tony Award for ...

An Asian American theatremaker reflects on the intent and impact of Broadway’s ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ and the precedent its latest casting decision may set. AAPAC noted MHE’s South Korea setting, and ...

Shakespeare in the Streets returns with its 10th neighborhood production on Sept. 9 in this historic Ville neighborhood. Home to Chuck Berry, Tina Turner, Arthur Ashe, Dick Gregory, and many more ...