The Shows Must Go On: The Trials and Triumphs of Rotating Rep
Why some theatres—and their loyal audiences—keep eagerly boarding the repertory merry-go-round, season after grueling season.
Category Archives: October 2016
The Best of Times…
Is the American playwriting glass half full, or half empty? Drink up this special issue before you answer.
The State of the Play: A Critic Addresses the Theatre Nation
There’s no shortage of exciting new writing for the stage. But are we in a Golden Age of playwriting?
Where Are All the New Plays? Everywhere!
Move over, NYC. From Oregon to Miami, theatres around the country are home to the nation’s most fertile new-play incubators.
The Play Incubators: No Production, No Problem
Can a play get made without a production? At a few indispensable development hubs, that’s the only way.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2016-17 Season
Robert Askins’s profane yet profound ‘Hand to God’ is the No. 1 play of the season.
The Top 20* Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2016-17 Season
August Wilson is the No. 1 playwright in America this season, but San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson isn’t far behind.
The Breakdown: Which Genders and Eras Are Getting More Productions
Women wrote just 26% of plays in the coming season, and men 63%, and new plays are outperforming old.
The New Play’s the Thing
For tips on what’s new and noteworthy on U.S. stages this season, who better to ask than literary managers and dramaturgs?
The Staying Power of the Welders
Loosely modeled after playwrights collectives before them, the D.C. group passes the torch.
