It was a tiny comic bit: Behind a cupped hand, the gangster sniffed what could have been a bump of coke. Blink and you’d miss it, but the crowd in Toruń exploded with laughter. I exchanged puzzled ...

That play was announced as part of the Arena Stage season last April with no pages, no treatment, and no title. Now, the story of Wallace “W” Tre and Free Dominic Mann, two gay Black men who meet ...

Over in Texas, Dallas Children’s Theater ’s board uses a process of gap analysis: analyzing and determining their organizational needs, then looking to find board members who can fill in the gaps to ...

In 2016 I was toast. My last two outings on Broadway had taken a toll. Though I’d been given the bucket-list gift of appearing in two of my all-time favorite plays, the power games and rancorous ...

In the singing land that is the musical theatre, orchestrators are too unsung. These showbiz pros do much to give a musical a distinctive sound and feel, and yet—the Tony Award for orchestrators ...

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us ...

One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...

In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...

“I was in school with Aeschylus,” quipped director Jack O’Brien in a recent joint interview with André Bishop in the latter’s book-lined office at Lincoln Center Theater, the three-theatre powerhouse ...

Each month on The Subtext, Brian speaks with a playwright about life, writing, and whatever itches we are scratching. This month he talks with playwright, director, and performer Aya Ogawa about ...

The Los Angeles playwright discusses nonprofit farces, community-engaged theatre, and the magic of theatre. It was originally commissioned by Center Theatre Group, so I wanted it to appeal to an ...

I’ve watched you, Jonathan, in notes, in meetings—whenever anybody wants to get you to lock down to an un-nuanced position, you gently, lovingly, and earnestly explain to them that that’s not your ...