Monday, October 20, 2025
An appreciation for our George C. White tribute, and salutes to a worker who left a Trump-dominated cultural institution on principle.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:25PMIn the latest Education Monthly, a new MFA program amid a sea of closures, inspiring op-eds, fall, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:21PMAn interview by director Yury Urnov with the playwright of ‘My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion,’ which appears in our Fall 2025 issue.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:52AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
A number of theatre artists and institutions have signed on to this decentralized, open-sourced initiative, and are inviting others to join in resistance.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PMA former copywriter for the D.C. organization reflects on the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:01AMFriday, October 10, 2025
A life-changing course with Paula Vogel, San Francisco, post-grad revelations, The Kilroys, joy, and loss on this episode of “The Subtext.”
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:40AMThe playwright talks about her great new feminist play. Plus: the clever comedy of Abby Wambaugh's 'The First 3 Minutes of 17 Show,' Big Bang readings, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, October 9, 2025
This month's awards include MacDowell and Chicago Dramatists residencies, Chicago’s Equity Jeff Awards, prizes awarded to NYC musical theatre composers, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:00AMIn this monologue by Tanya Everett, performed by Nedra Marie Taylor, we hear from the legendary blues and jazz singer-songwriter who wrote 'Downhearted Blues.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMTuesday, October 7, 2025
A thread of protest, censorship, and direct action runs through this month's entries.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMMonday, October 6, 2025
It’s a good thing that unions and employers have a shared interest in the robust funding of the NEA and NEH—because it’s going to take a united front to make it happen.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PMThe prolific solo performer talks about 'Spanish Stew,' a new show about her arrival in San Francisco in the 1970s.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMFriday, October 3, 2025
On this episode the editors dive deep into our fall AT issue with dramaturg/journalist Dezi Tibbs, then dig into Latin American representation with playwright-performer John Leguizamo.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:30AMThe leader of 59E59, an Off-Broadway theatre complex that programs more than 30 shows a year, offers a vision for the sustainability of the art form.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, October 2, 2025
Some venues are closed, others still open, and many have offered discounts to paused federal workers.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:42PMQuintessence Theatre Group shares the story of how some of the Harlem Renaissance's greatest minds came together to create the first all-Black literary magazine.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:00PMA small, nimble theatre in the Last Frontier's largest city has been programming classics and new works there for 33 years.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMWednesday, October 1, 2025
L M Feldman’s new queer love story, starting its rolling world premiere at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, uses ASL and English for more than mere explication.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:17PMTuesday, September 30, 2025
A roundup of comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:08PMCatching up with the digital editor on the state of criticism, a regrouping of Theatre Folx of Color, Chicago happenings, new columns, and more.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:37PMMonday, September 29, 2025
This edition highlights immigrant theatremakers, ranging from performers to designers to the folks behind the scenes making sure productions make it to the stage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:38PMFriday, September 26, 2025
Like many, I found a home for my imagination and my best self to bloom on school stages. Are those same chances still open to new generations?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMThursday, September 25, 2025
New memoirs from playwright Martin Sherman and producer Jeffrey Seller recount their bumpy but determined journeys to lives in the theatre.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:29PMA roundup of prizes, residencies, fellowships, and other recognitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:55PMTuesday, September 23, 2025
After 4 arts organizations challenged the NEA policy, the U.S. District Court struck down restrictions disfavoring grants for projects promoting ‘gender ideology’ as unconstitutional.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:59AMThough he personally left behind stage work early in his career, through his Sundance Institute Redford championed and empowered generations of theatremakers in the U.S. and the world.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AMMonday, September 22, 2025
As his popular two-hander makes the rounds of U.S. theatres in the coming season, playwright Lloyd Suh reminisces on the play's development and continued resonance in an anti-immigrant clima…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:00PMEditors unveil AT's annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays and Top 20 Most Produced Playwrights lists and chat with Irene Sankoff, David Hein, and the ubiquitous Gunderson.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:32AMFriday, September 19, 2025
After taking in nearly a week of performances, some durational and all participatory on some level, can I really go back to everyday, run-of-the-mill theatre?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:02PMThursday, September 18, 2025
As we look forward to this year's theatre season across the U.S., our Fall issue also takes stock of lessons from history.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:33PMThe prolific Lauren Gunderson is back on top for the third time (*26 due to ties; list does not count works by Shakespeare).
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