Jessie Jones, a veteran TV character actor who guested on such popular series as Murphy Brown, Newhart and Night Court and also was a prolific comedy playwright, has died. She was 75. Her writing ...

John Lithgow in “Giant” on Broadway, 2026 (Credit: Joan Marcus) On March 17, “Giant” will host a special Playwrights’ Night on Broadway. The special performance invites 75 New York-based writers at ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades. A new ...

Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s love for theater started early. As a child, her father, R.N. Sandberg, a playwright and theater professor, took her to one of his classes at Cornish College of the ...

The cast of the world-premiere play 'Fierce Satire and Mediocre Sex,' running Feb. 13-28 at the Buntport Theater, clockwise from lower left: Meredith Young, Jeff Jesmer, Chris Kendall, Sophia Badia ...

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After an industry reading in New York last year, Matthew Lombardo’s new play “When Playwrights Kill” is headed to Boston’s Huntington Theatre. The world-premiere production will run from April 3-18.

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 ...

He helped create the Off Off Broadway theater scene, wrote and acted in Andy Warhol’s films, and turned his fascination with collectible Americana into books. By Alex Traub Robert Heide, who began his ...

Capital Stage will begin accepting script submissions for its annual new play festival, PLAYWRIGHTS’ REVOLUTION, from January 6 through March 6, 2026. The program focuses on identifying and developing ...

I have been struggling to write a tribute to Tom Stoppard, the living playwright I admired more than any other in my professional life as a theater critic. Why was he my favorite? Whereas most ...