Rami Margron: Big Diane Energy
What’s it like to get 3 chances to play a god? An actor talks to a playwright about confidence, gender, and climate.
All Stories About Madeleine George
Madeleine George Receives Hermitage Major Theater Award
The award comes with a $35,000 cash prize to support an original work, along with a residency at the Hermitage and a developmental workshop of the play in a major arts capital in the fall of 2023.
Radha Blank Named Inaugural Hermitage Major Theater Award Recipient
Finalists for the $35,000 prize and six-week residency include Luis Alfaro, Eisa Davis, and Madeleine George.
Williamstown Announces New Play Award and Commissions
John J. Caswell Jr. is the recipient of this year’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award and the 2022 Jay Harris Commission.
MacDowell Colony Announces Winter-Spring Fellowships
Multiple theatre artists are among MacDowell Colony’s 87 winter-spring fellows, who will receive an average of $10,000 and a fully funded residency.
Madeleine George Wins the Whiting Award for Drama
The playwright will win the $50,000 prize for drama, presented by the Whiting Foundation.
Whole New Worlds: How Science Fiction Is Materializing Onstage
What are today’s science fiction and fantasy plays but a kind of modern mythology?
What Is a Science Fiction Play Anyway?
Christina Anderson, Madeline George, and Mac Rogers discuss how they put science in their fiction, pulp in their living-room drama, and speculation in their history.
The Future of the Past in Jordan Harrison’s ‘Marjorie Prime’
A new play about loss and memory contemplates a world full of eternal afterimages—‘primes’—that can learn to look and act like us. But how will they feel?
Erik Ehn’s Code of Silence
Playwrights at Erik Ehn’s annual Texas retreat don’t speak for 10 days. New writing rushes into the void, along with a sense of community.
