Who better to take the pulse of a changing industry than with the folks at the hub of the wheel: stage managers.

Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and ...

This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers. But, after seeing Oluo ...

The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned. The Sundance Theatre Program never had a proper interment or ...

Recently I went to see a play at an Off-Broadway theatre that I love, a production I found remarkably profound. I was in town for only a day, and redeye jetlag fatigue or not, I was going to the show ...

This article is adapted from Survivors of a Future That Never Happened: A Cultural Review, 1974-1994 (Montreal Publishing), available on Bookshop.org and Amazon.com. “The Theatre of Images”—a term ...

Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...

John Simon, the infamously vitriolic theatre critic who held the top post at New York magazine more or less uninterrupted from 1968 to 2005, died over the weekend. He was 94. This is one of two ...

Maybe Wilbur Wright didn’t actually lob this accusation at his brother Orville on the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1900, but he did so onstage at New York City’s Ensemble Studio Theatre in November ...

A Deaf educator who receives numerous emails from theatre teachers and directors gives advice on best practices for incorporating Deaf actors and ASL. This article may strike some nerves and spark ...

Broadway may have reopened its theatres on Sept. 13, but it was Mary Zimmerman’s ‘Metamorphoses’ that seemed to capture and transform NYC’s grief. Jed Bernstein, president of the Broadway League, had ...

The company’s 5-decade journey from Off-Off-Broadway outlier to Broadway powerhouse has been steered all along by the same 2 leaders. Practice may be the way to get to Carnegie Hall, but the path to ...