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The complete playscript of 'Amm(i)gone' appears in our Summer 2025 issue. Here the author talks with a crucial mentor about the work's inspiration, production history, and meaning.
People to Watch: Kimie Nishikawa The New York-based scenic designer discusses her process, design partners, and theatre memories for our Summer 2025 issue.
This Month in Theatre History The birth of two theatre giants, a theatre company tenure cut short by fire, and the establishing of a Wisconsin staple.
The venerable international festival's 79th iteration lays out the welcome mat for first-time performers and audiences, and puts its first non-European language, Arabic, in the spotlight.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s tap dancing musical comedy comes to life on stage! Packed with Irving Berlin’s greatest hits including, “Cheek to Cheek,” “Top Hat,” “Let’s Face the Music & Dance,” ...
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Part ritual and part theatrical experience, What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a fiercely innovative play that sets out to disrupt the pervasiveness of anti-blackness and rejoice in the resilience ...
Please Do Not Touch the Indians Traditional Native storytelling is infused into nonlinear theatre, with characters that move freely between past and present, offering perspectives of the same reality ...
Unique and quirky, this is a story about what to do during a pandemic…Quarantine? Plan for the future? Kill your lover’s husband? Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins ...
Acclaimed actors Rainn Wilson, Mike Nussbaum, William Peterson and Karen Rodriguez bring this curious trio of Tracy Letts’ plays to the virtual stage. Offering dynamic glimpses into a world off-kilter ...
Facts become blurry when a demanding editor-in-chief hires the world’s most neurotically precise fact-checker to go toe-to-toe with an eccentric author who values story over accuracy. Hard facts ...
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding A joyous and timely tale about sisterhood and community set on a sweltering summer day in a Harlem hair-braiding shop. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving ...