At the 29th Philadelphia Fringe Festival, now running through Sept. 28, the city itself is both audience and performer. Programming director Mikaela Boone describes the festival’s mandate as creating ...

Our annual Top 10/Top 20 lists offer invaluable snapshots of the American theatre’s evolving tastes, but programming choices aren’t made in a vacuum, of course. Which shows get lots of productions has ...

As we look forward to this year’s theatre season across the U.S., our Fall issue also takes stock of lessons from history. I can still recall the first few times my kids started to begin sentences ...

Ahead of a fall tour of the new concert musical ‘Dear Everything,’ V (formerly Eve Ensler) reflects on the climate change crisis, the ‘vagina that could,’ and her vision for collective action through ...

The vaccination-themed farce, born at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company and acclaimed nationwide, is back with a lot of its original team—but not at the original theatre, which has shut down. A year ...

A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her work. A review of ‘Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle,’ by Peter Hall, edited by ...

A new nationwide movement aims to connect artists in opposition to the Trump administration’s cultural policies and to reclaim the nation’s institutions and narratives. This nationwide network ...

Checking in with Luis Alfaro about the end of USC’s MFA in Dramatic Writing, plus other fall education updates. I hope you all are settling into September. It sure feels like New York flipped a switch ...

Trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming artists weren’t welcome at the stage door. They found their own way in—and they’re holding the door open for others. Days in the lives of theatre folks ...

5 plays about the history of gender nonconformity created by TGNC artists have been commissioned, which the artists will spend the next 2 years developing. “I was really excited to amplify artists ...

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