Playwrights Horizons Announces 2019 Commissions
Commissions were awarded to Tori Sampson, David Adjmi, and Aleshea Harris, among others.
All Stories About Playwrights Horizons
Tim Sanford: Not Averse to Being Perverse
Playwrights Horizons’s outgoing artistic director has always programmed the plays he’d like to see, and sometimes plays his subscribers don’t.
Tim Sanford to Leave Playwrights Horizons
After 23 years at the Off Broadway new-play company, Sanford will pass the baton to longtime associate a.d. Adam Greenfield.
The Long Goodbye
Why ‘Completeness,’ a play about the impossibility of certainty, was singularly hard to finish.
Iyvon Edebiri Named Recipient of 2019 Mark O’Donnell Prize
The Nigerian American playwright, producer, and dramaturg is best known for running a radio-play series the Parsnip Ship.
Playwright Horizons to Produce Final Michael Friedman Musical
Next season also includes world premieres by Jaclyn Backhaus and Jeremy O. Harris.
Michael R. Jackson: What If
The form-breaking playwright/composer puts his work, and his audiences, through ‘A Strange Loop.’
Larissa FastHorse’s ‘The Thanksgiving Play’: It’s Okay to Laugh
With her satire of performative wokeness, the Native American writer strives to subtly rewire audiences’ default responses.
Talkback Backtalk
Up for a post-show discussion? Four a.d.s explain why they are—and you just might be too.
Lois Smith, Constant Learner
The veteran actor, who’s picking up ASL for Craig Lucas’s new play, recalls working with Horton Foote and laments compressed rehearsal time.
