“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 ...

Each month on The Subtext, Brian speaks with a playwright about life, writing, and whatever itches we are scratching. This time, he sits down with Sophie McIntosh, the playwright who co-founded Good ...

NEW YORK CITY: Soho Rep has announced The Hunger Cycle, a group of three ambitious world premiere productions over the next three seasons prompted by the question: “What are we hungry for?” While each ...

The final festival in Park City showed off some interesting film products, but my biggest takeaways were from conversations about intentionality and care in the art-making process. In January, I had ...

Execs from more than 40 of the country’s largest regional theatres gathered in Wisconsin last week to share practical advice for an industry that is ‘exceptionally strained.’ In early 2025, Los ...

PHILADELPHIA: Theatre Philadelphia has announced the return of Philly Theatre Week, April 23-May 3. The 10-day celebration will feature close to 50 events, designed to showcase the dynamic and diverse ...

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. This year, eight finalists will be invited to be part of CAATA’s inaugural 10-Minute Playwriting Festival: Legacy. Resistance. Evolution., ...

This month: Alia Shawkat on Clare Barron’s ‘You Got Older,’ Robert Kaplow on his Oscar-nominated screenplay for ‘Blue Moon,’ and Joriah Kwamé on his TikTok ...

I read with great interest your recent article “Theatre in a Time of Genocide: Palestinian Imagination Under Fire.” I am grateful that American Theatre continues to highlight artists working under ...

What The Bengsons’ ‘My Joy Is Heavy’ and a new ‘Hadestown’ cast featuring Gaby Moreno have in common. The 10-day celebration of pay-what-you-can Philly theatre will feature around 50 events, including ...

A roundup of notable publications.

The new musical’s creators think they’ve upended the material’s sexist tropes; apparently they don’t see that ‘man in a dress’ jokes are inherently transphobic. Drag is not inherently transphobic, but ...