This resource list will be featured in the Winter 2025 print issue, coming to mailboxes soon. A teenaged future Pulitzer winner presents the first 10-minute play of many in front of her role models. A ...

As he leaves the dual helm of the Geffen School of Drama at Yale and Yale Repertory Theatre after 24 years, he reflects on a career of leading and learning. Leadership has its own version of the ...

A chat with the NYC venue’s new leaders, good news from the wild project, new plays’ strong showing, and a world-premiere listing. But how does shared leadership actually work in practice? That was ...

NEW YORK CITY: There’s good news for theatre criticism at two of the nation’s most important outlets, The New York Times and The New Yorker. After holding the job of theatre critic and staff writer ...

Robert A. Freedman died on Sept. 22 at the age of 89. Perhaps it’s appropriate that this memoriam is being written on a cold and wind-swept rainy night, a fitting and dramatic setting for someone ...

As a special offering in our Offscript feed, we share this monologue by Kevin Renn about the legendary fashion designer who gave the world the Playboy Bunny costume. American Theatre is excited to ...

To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. In the latest AT ...

A roundup of notable publications.

Recently I went to see a play at an Off-Broadway theatre that I love, a production I found remarkably profound. I was in town for only a day, and redeye jetlag fatigue or not, I was going to the show ...

This piece is one in a series on disability and theatre. Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character.

The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned. The Sundance Theatre Program never had a proper interment or ...

The American theatre as we know it didn’t just evolve organically, inevitably; it was conjured by visionaries who dreamt of a national theatre outside New York, then built it. This essay first ...