The first thing we did was pour a libation, but instead of water or rum, we poured names. It was morning in San Juan. I had come to TCG’s National Conference to lead a practice lab called “Writing as ...

For our guest columnist’s final column (for now), she reconnects with past students and asks teachers how they’re educating a new generation. One of the most rewarding parts of my career as a high ...

There are shows in the history of the American musical that don’t just entertain but redefine the form. Oklahoma! introduced the idea that song, story, and dance could be seamlessly integrated into a ...

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 ...

Broadly conceived, American documentary theatre (also sometimes called docudrama, ethnodrama, verbatim theatre, tribunal theatre[1], theatre of witness, or theatre of fact) is performance typically ...

The following is an excerpt from the new book Rise Up! Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton' by Chris Jones (published by Methuen Drama), theatre critic for the Chicago ...

Making a show sound great in a theatre space is as much an art as a science, and there’s no substitute for being there. Acoustics are to a sound designer what playing space is to a director: both ...

We’ll look back on these 2 Bay Area companies for the imaginations they unleashed and the lives they touched. The San Francisco Bay Area’s theatre scene has always been a thriving, joyful beast. We’re ...

PITTSBURGH: As Monteze Freeland moves on from City Theatre Company to serve as artistic director at Alumni Theater Company, Clare Drobot has become City Theatre’s sole artistic director, leading ...

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 ...

I first encountered Richard Greenberg‘s work in 1985, when I saw his comedy Life Under Water in a one-act marathon at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Rich was a recent graduate of the Yale School of ...

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. A lot can happen in ...