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Category Archives: Features
What’s Your Freshness Date?
For theatre to keep up with community and with the times, we need new ways to support writers and their work.
Theatre Sets the Table
How an Atlanta company stages gatherings where the conversations are as important as the plays.
Shay Youngblood Shook the Mess Out of Misery
The prolific late author and playwright, who died over the summer, leaves behind a legacy of expansive work about Southern Black women and their journeys.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2024-25 Season
Heidi Schreck’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ tops the list for the second year in a row (*11 due ties).
The Top 20* Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2024-25 Season
Kate Hamill and Rajiv Joseph tie for the top spot on a diverse list of dramatists and adaptors (*23 due to ties).
Voces y Votos
With apt new comedies programmed around election seasons, theatre companies have been complicating audience notions of the Latine vote and community.
Me and Mr. Jones
A longtime admirer and colleague remembers the man and the questions that drove his work.
Know a Theatre: People’s Light of Malvern, Pa.
Now in its 50th year, this Pennsylvania theatre has strong local roots as well as a national profile.
How ‘Coconut Cake’ Is Being Served at 5 Black Theatres
A rolling premiere award run out of the International Black Theatre Festival is having success with a flexible approach to commissioning and co-production.
