Editor’s Note: Before the Fall
Our season preview and most-produced plays lists show a theatre scene still feeling the effects of contraction but continuing to show up for the work against steep odds.
All Stories About Top 10 Most-Produced Plays
Since 1994, American Theatre has used the season listings for TCG Member Theatres to calculate our Top 10 Most-Produced Play list. And since 2014, we’ve used those same metrics to count the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights in America.
Curious? You can find all of those lists here!
Offscript: Most-Produced With Heidi Shreck, Rajiv Joseph, and Kate Hamill
On this episode we broke the news of which plays and playwrights will be the most produced this season. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and some most-produced playwrights on new play development.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2024-25 Season
Heidi Schreck’s ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ tops the list for the second year in a row (*11 due ties).
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2023-24 Season
Dramas and comedies with a political edge top this year’s list (*actually 12 due to ties).
Offscript: Most-Produced With Lynn Nottage & Lauren Gunderson
On this episode we broke the news that Nottage’s ‘Clyde’s’ will be the most-produced play of the season, then welcomed her and fellow prolific scribe Gunderson on to talk shop.
‘Clyde’s’ Is Most-Produced Play, and Lynn Nottage Most-Produced Playwright, of 2022-23 Season
A mix of familiar and new titles, of challenge and comfort, characterizes this year’s lists, the first this magazine has done since 2019.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2019-20 Season
What’s the number one play in America? It’s a tie between ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ and ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.’
Offscript: Live! It’s Not Lonely at the Top
Live at the Lark, American Theatre editors announced the season’s top plays and playwrights, and spoke to two of them, Lucas Hnath and Karen Zacarías.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2018-19 Season
‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ by Lucas Hnath, which premiered almost simultaneously at South Coast Rep and on Broadway, will be the most-produced play in America this season.
The Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2017-18 Season
This year’s top play is ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Lee Hall, based on the Oscar-winning film.
