'In the play’s eerie ending, we hear an unidentifiable amplified sound, as Young Said and Young Safiyya wonder about the rumble that seems to be coming...We sit in the heaviness of knowing what the next 75 years will hold.'
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Tonight Benjamin Benne's ALMA begins performances at Anaheim's Chance Theater. Listen to our June 2022 interview with Benjamin about intimacy, religion, poetic realism, and Mario Kart. americantheatre.org/2022/06/07/off…

Golden Thread Productions has kicked off its Season of Palestine with a new staging of Ghassan Kanafani's 'Returning to Haifa.' It is both a reminder of a painful past and an invitation to a future of joyful resistance, writes Maya Nazzal. americantheatre.org/2024/05/03/pal…

Tina Landau directs Paula Vogel's 'Mother Play,' Leigh Silverman directs Shaina Taub's 'Suffs' and Anne Kauffman directs Amy Herzog's 'Mary Jane'----incredible to think how rare it was just a few eyeblinks ago to have so many women directing women on Broadway

“Anyone who has been in a relationship knows it isn’t just built. Even without an illness or the kind of terror Rita has, relationships are really hard and take work. What are you willing to do for your love, even if you don’t know what it’ll cost you yet?”americantheatre.org/2024/05/01/mak…

Purlie Victorious has been nominated for 6 Tonys, including Best Play Revival!

You can watch Purlie Victorious Friday, May 24 at 9/8c on PBS. #GreatPerformancesPBS

Reporter Ashley Lee writes about how Sean Hartley and Daniel Messé adapted Craig Lucas's 'Prelude to a Kiss' into a musical, currently playing at South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival. americantheatre.org/2024/05/01/mak…

'If you are someone who is going to go into theatre or the arts, that's just who you are and I believe you'll find a way no matter what.' americantheatre.org/2024/05/01/the…

With 3 productions of their plays this spring at Theatre Rhinoceros, About Face Theatre, and philatheatreco, playwright Roger Q. Mason may finally be getting the reception they've long desired and deserved for their kaleidoscopic historical fantasias. americantheatre.org/2024/04/29/has…

After nearly a year without a season at Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum, new artistic director Snehal Desai has unveiled a 7-show 2024-25 slate at the Taper and its larger sister, the Ahmanson. Desai spoke to editor Rob Weinert-Kendt about his programming and plans.
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From our perspective as the magazine primarily for and about the nation's nonprofit theatres, yesterday's Tony nominations were notable for how prominently the nonprofit sector was represented. Not only did all the Best Musical nominees run first at nonprofits, but 1/4

On this month's The Subtext Podcast, Brian James Polak talks to writer and producer Jenni Lamb about pivoting from teaching, feeling stuck in development hell, and championing local storytellers. americantheatre.org/2024/05/01/the…

I would be nowhere without Playwrights Horizons. Thank god for the risk takers and rule breakers.

Tonight at Sacramento's Capital Stage, Molly Smith Metzler's CRY IT OUT begins performances. We published the full script in our Dec. 2018 issue, along with this lively Q&A with Molly and her colleague Dominique Morisseau about the play, motherhood, and more. americantheatre.org/2018/12/06/the…

'I’m an old-school artistic director in that...I look to a season as a way to engage in a sustained dialogue with our community and our audience, and to create a journey you can go on over the course of a year.'
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Speaking of Best Play Tony nominees at Broadway nonprofits, don't forget that we published the entire script of Jocelyn Bioh's ebullient JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING in our Winter print issue, available with a subscription. americantheatre.org/join/

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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME starts tonight at ICT Long Beach, and POTUS starts at Trustus Theatre on May 3 and Nashville Rep on May 10. Listen to our dialogue with playwrights Heidi Schreck and Selina Fillinger about these 2 hugely popular plays. americantheatre.org/2023/10/20/off…