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.
Category Archives: Special Section
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.
What Do Agents Do for Playwrights?
As Charles Kopelman and Sarah Douglas of Abrams Artists Agency explain: They talk, the playwrights write.
A Narrowing of Vision Is Never the Answer
If we can’t move past our bias toward theatre made in the U.S. and ratified in New York, we might as well just build a wall.
Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 5-Ring Circus
How this West Virginia new-play fest builds and rides an annual new-play repertory carousel.
Mac Wellman: An Outlier Tracing His Own Orbit
How this dedicated follower of no fashion and avatar of alternatives to the well-made play keeps it weird.
Our Roles in the Drama
‘Political theatre’ should not be an automatic putdown; both politics and theatre can lie or speak truth, depending on how they’re used.
All the World’s a Campaign
A season of travel with this year’s presidential candidates proved that democracy is still a live event.
The Theatre of Trump
How has this unlikely presidential candidate gotten so far? By setting the stage and giving the performance of a lifetime.
