In “Marjorie Prime” and other works, Jordan Harrison delivers sweet-bitter anatomies of human connection mediated through ...

Playwrights Horizons, a premiere Off Broadway theater, is being sued by a white musician who claims discount tickets for people of color are discriminatory.

"I'm not some kind of intellectual who's importing very special ideas into the unfamiliar terrain of the theater. I don't see it like that at all," he said. "There's something about the way the plays ...

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. By Bruce Weber Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born ...

Cleage is known for her transformative plays centering on Black women's experiences. Pearl Cleage, an acclaimed writer known for her emphasis on Black feminist ideology, now reigns as a 2025 recipient ...

Playwrights’ Center celebrates a new, bigger space at the border of St. Paul and Minneapolis to house internationally acclaimed writers and nurture their work to the stage. For 46 years, Playwrights’ ...

One of the beams supporting the vibrant theater scene here in South Florida is the number of local playwrights we have in the region. So it’s not entirely surprising that as the “season” starts ...

The theater world is mourning after an award-winning playwright on the rise was killed in an apartment fire in Smyrna, Georgia, authorities believe was set intentionally. On Wednesday, September 3, ...

SMYRNA, Ga. — Award-winning playwright Olivia Matthews was tragically killed in a fire that investigators say was intentionally set at her apartment in Smyrna. Fire investigators are offering a reward ...

In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were streaming in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of shows including the ...

Thirty years ago, Ricardo Morris, a graduate student at what was then the Yale School of Drama, came up with a creative way to connect with New Haven youth living just outside campus. With the drama ...

“For over 30 years, it’s been one of life’s great pleasures to know Rich and his writing. Dazzling, humane, wildly funny,” Greenberg’s friend and theater director Robert Falls wrote. By McKinley ...