Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The writer of ‘Meet the Cartozians’ chats with her leading actress about the history behind the play, the complicated effects of assimilation, and Armenian pride and trauma.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2026
A vital yet often-overlooked disability-rights protest in San Francisco in 1977 is musicalized at Denver's Phamaly Theatre Company.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2026
A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, the playwright reflects on community and responsibility with 'The People of Pompeii.'
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2026
The articles in our Summer 2026 issue are underpinned by questions about who we’ve been—and who we might yet become.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2026
For our guest columnist’s final column (for now), she reconnects with past students and asks teachers how they’re educating a new generation.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:31PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2026
MILCK's first musical at La Jolla Playhouse this summer can't keep quiet, telling the story of an Asian American singer/songwriter with some unresolved trauma.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:33AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2026
For theatre teachers, summer is the time to inhale, recharge, and remember what it’s like to be a student.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2026
A new bio-musical at Arena Stage throws it back to the ’90s with the groundbreaking girl group TLC.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2026
A roundup of the countless projects celebrating America's 250th birthday this summer and beyond.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:43PM[SHARE]Sarah Gancher's hootenanny-inspired, Arkansas-set adaptation of 'Eugene Onegin' gets the Rachel Chavkin immersive treatment at TheatreSquared.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:08AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2026
Why the theatre industry’s new-play push hasn’t improved the playwrights’ lot.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:07AM[SHARE]As several instructive case studies show, hope springs eternal for today's theatremakers, even amid steep challenges.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Participating in poetry is key in Carissa Atallah's new play about a DACA college student that takes inspiration from spoken-word competitions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2026
A conversation about abolition, family, and how to hold the past in the present.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2026
One of three plays in InterAct Theatre Company's Philly Cycle, 'Seng's Hair Salon' blends salon life, unaddressed trauma, and inspiration from Philly's Southeast Asian communities.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
Poised between island and mainland, Boricua artists create work that feels like home wherever they are.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:22PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2026
The Dallas-based playwright and theatre leader has an eye and ear for detail, including in his new play about Malcolm X and Redd Foxx.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2026
Yosimar Reyes's new play at Teatro Visión in San Jose explores the inter-generational defenses of Latine folks targeted by ICE raids.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
A new musical about a gay teen's coming-out journey premieres at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 23, 2026
Theatres across Minnesota have closed for the day during the state's general strike against ICE's violence.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 22, 2026
At Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit, playwright Steve Yockey tells a new horror comedy about a couple caught between classes.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2026
The playwright talks about how she channeled her anger about our nation's gun violence epidemic into an audacious, imaginative play seen through the eyes of a child.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
They help hire actors; they also mostly work for hire. What can casting directors tell us about the industry's health and future?
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Visionary artistic directors' departures, new execs at summer play festivals, and other comings and goings at the top of U.S. theatre institutions.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Nearly 4 decades ago, Philip Kan Gotanda's play tackled Hollywood's Asian American stereotypes. A recent L.A. revival hit different, for better and worse.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:10PM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2025
An interview by director Yury Urnov with the playwright of 'My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion,' which appears in our Fall 2025 issue.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:52AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2025
The House's proposed FY26 appropriations bill would slash federal arts and humanities funding by 35 percent.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The new year-round cultural hub will be home to ACK Theatre Company, while welcoming other cultural organizations, festivals, and artistic endeavors to Nantucket.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
His plans to trim $11.5 million from the state budget would eviscerate the state's new Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, designed to help arts employers pay workers a fair wage.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2025
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