All Stories About Ayad Akhtar

The Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2015–16 Season

Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Disgraced,’ a new entry, tops the list, alongside other new entries and some returning favorites.

This year’s top playwright won a Pulitzer for his first play (and we published it).

Along with plays by Sarah Ruhl, August Wilson, Howard Brenton, Ayad Akhtar and Elizabeth Irwin, MTC will premiere Rachel Bonds’s ‘Swimmers.’

The slate includes plays by Ayad Akhtar, Ken Ludwig, Ike Holter, Laura Eason and Lucas Hnath.

The Connecticut theatre’s season will include a world premiere by Samuel D. Hunter and a revival of Emily Mann’s ‘Having Our Say.’

The CUNY center’s free programs will also include screenings of films by two avant-garde theatre auteurs, Lee Breuer and Richard Foreman.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author talks about unsettling his audience and repainting the Muslim image in the West.

Ayad Akhtar inspired to write his new show after seeing an ad in a New York taxi.