The creative team behind a new musical at ACT honors their oft-disrespected Oakland home, telling a story about its overlooked tech contributions with a locally brewed hip-hop sound. Ahead of our ...

An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...

Sam Shepard, like Elvis, has found an infectious groove in the cracks of American mythology. Why does the author of ‘True West’ write plays? To see and hear things he can’t find anywhere else.

They’ve been to Wally World, they’ve been to Vegas, and now the Griswolds are going to… Broadway! So get in your family truckster and join Clark, Ellen, Audrey, and Rusty on their big New York City ...

Kate Arrington expected her playwriting debut to be something small. When the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member presented her first full-length play to then-artistic director Anna D. Shapiro ...

For more information about the actors in this story, scroll to the end or just click on their names. Carrie Coon sat in the corner of her apartment wearing a slip, heels, and pearls. She sipped her ...

His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, ‘Dark Disabled Stories,’ is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats disabled people ...

After 37 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gaines has found the right time to step away from the company she founded. From the rooftop of a Lincoln Park pub to the staple theatre at ...

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...

Attendance and funding may be down at many U.S. theatres, but the variety of creative responses to crisis and precarity is ever increasing. It’s no secret that the nation’s resident theatres didn’t ...

A dialogue on how students, teachers, and parents can push back against a wave of conservative legislation and intimidation that threatens to chill theatrical expression. The kooky, macabre musical ...

Through a series of interviews with the magazine’s original team, our editor-in-chief retells American Theatre’s origin story as the preeminent publication for the nonprofit theatre industry. Since ...