MFA or the Highway?
7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
All Stories About Playwriting
A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
What Is the Question?
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
Julia Jarcho Appointed Head of MFA Playwriting at Brown
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Adrienne Kennedy: A Liberating Beacon
Colleagues and former students of the playwright share how she helped shape their lives and work.
Introducing a New/Old Podcast: The Subtext
Introducing a new podcast to American Theatre’s network: the Subtext, where playwright Brian James Polak interviews playwrights about what makes them tick.
Making Plays and Friends at Kenyon Playwrights Conference
Writing is a solitary pursuit, but not for a week each year on this idyllic Midwestern campus.
The Best of Times…
Is the American playwriting glass half full, or half empty? Drink up this special issue before you answer.
The State of the Play: A Critic Addresses the Theatre Nation
There’s no shortage of exciting new writing for the stage. But are we in a Golden Age of playwriting?
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.
