This Month in Theatre History
From a 19th-century play about the African-American experience to Pulitzer winners ‘Angels in America’ and ‘I Am My Own Wife,’ May was a memorable month for theatre.
All Stories About Playwrights Horizons
Not Feeling It: Max Posner on ‘The Treasurer’
The long-standing distance between a mother and her son is not quite closed in this new play about grief, guilt, and longing.
Plays About Guns, With Varying Aims
In the midst of the #NeverAgain movement, can theatre artists foster nuanced conversations on the polarizing topics of gun violence and gun control?
Playwrights Horizons Announces 2018-19 Season
The season will feature world premieres by Larissa FastHorse, Tori Sampson, Halley Feiffer, and Michael R. Jackson.
Fellowships Ahoy
After the degree (or without it), there are myriad alternatives for directors to learn their chops.
Leah Nanako Winkler Wins First Annual Mark O’Donnell Prize
The award for emerging theatre artists comes with $25,000 and developmental support.
The Transfiguration of Albert Innaurato
He was an outsized figure as zany, mercurial, tender, and tragic as the characters he put onstage.
Extra Seasoning: Artistic Directors Share Their Faves
Whose programs do the programmers admire most? We asked some U.S. theatre leaders and they told us.
Kirsten Childs Thinks Big
Her new musical ‘Bella’ is a tall tale about an unlikely Old West heroine.
Middle Eastern-American Artists Ask: Who Gets to Speak for ‘The Profane’?
Zayd Dohrn’s new play at Playwrights Horizons has sparked a public conversation about equity, inclusion, and authorship.
