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).
Features
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.
Coffee Chronicles
A playwright travels to his parents’ home country and plants the seeds for a new play with Hero Theatre’s Nuestro Planeta project.
Perfect Prop Pie
What theatres are cooking up for ‘Waitress,’ the Sara Bareilles/Jessie Nelson musical that’s popping up at several theatres in the coming season.
Bringing New Harmony to Indy’s Inaugural PlayFest
The New Harmony Project’s new-play festival seeks to stamp Indianapolis’s place on the new-work development map.
This Month in Theatre History
September is full of actors making their mark, from the downfall of a 19th-century working-class icon to one actor’s celebrated recreation of a Jazz Age star.
Bruce E.H. Johnson: A Persistent, Eloquent 1st Amendment Defender
The Seattle-based lawyer, who served on local and national theatre boards for decades, also fought pro bono for embattled theatres and artists.
