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Byline: Sophie Craig Content warning: This review references acts of self-harm. The characters stir impatiently in their green-screen squares. Mash runs over her lines. Nina puts on earrings. Conrad lights [...]

Byline: Katie Van Lew Image Courtesy of Beth Amann and Patrick Flynn By Katie Van Lew 'Tis the season to curl up next to a fireplace, bake Christmas cookies, and [...]

Byline: Nia Anthony By Nia Anthony Elm Staff Writer In 1957, playwright Arthur Laurents, along with composer Leonard Bernstein and lyricist Stephen Sondheim,brought on the first production of 'West Side [...]

Byline: Paul JamesNathan BarberMichael BerginAmy Guay Six students and alumni from Georgetown and Howard University are spending this academic year developing their own plays during the 2020/21 season of Arena [...]

Byline: Kayla Butera Lights, camera, (virtual) action. Starting on Oct. 30, the Tufts Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies screened three plays in its Fall Festival of Plays. Grounded [...]

Byline: Olivia Popp SF Playhouse makes a triumphant return in its premiere production of the 2020-21 season with Yasmina Reza's 1998 Tony Award-winning play 'Art,' translated by Christopher Hampton (originally [...]

Byline: Molly Farrar The Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University is not letting the pandemic hold performers and writers back. While workshops among the cast and crew are still active, [...]

Byline: Heather Harrison | Staff Writer Mississippi State University's own Theatre MSU is performing 'Anne and Emmett,' a hypothetical conversation between historic figures Anne Frank and Emmett Till that vocalizes [...]

Byline: LINDSEY In one history of the movies, 'Citizen Kane' screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz might look like a footnote. The former playwright had a hand in many famous pictures, including 'The [...]

Byline: Rachel Patz On Friday, October 31, Westmont College Theatre Arts Department live-streamed their first performance of the fall season, 'Small Enchantments.' Written by Boston-based playwright Lila Rose Kaplan and [...]

Playwright August Wilson was born and raised in Pittsburgh's Hill District. And although he spent the last 15 years of his life in Seattle, part of his legacy has returned [...]

'Think about me doing Hip Hop.' '... Doing what to it?' In the new Netflix film 'The 40-Year-Old Version,' Radha (Radha Blank), a struggling playwright, asks if her agent and [...]

At 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, a calendar notification popped up on my screen: 'Now Happening: 'Cheryl Robs a Bank: An Evening of Dramatic Entertainm...'' arbitrarily cut off by [...]

Official event flyer, courtesy Essential Theatre Amid limitations and guidelines established due to COVID-19, Florida A&M University's Essential Theatre program has still managed to perform and showcase student talent. From [...]

On the brink of reaching the big 4-0, washed-up playwright Radha Blank desperately plans to stage her play in a midlife crisis. Despite winning the theatre's '30 under 30' award [...]

Byline: Chiara Naomi Kaufman, Contributing Writer c/o wesleyan.edu 'I stand myself and my art squarely on the self-defining ground of the slave quarters,' playwright August Wilson remarks in his speech [...]

Byline: Ben Servetah TV Podcast-turned-TV-show 'Song Exploder' is an ode to the lunacy of creatives Monday, October 5, 2020 - 11:39am NOSELL Buy this photo Netflix Ben Servetah For The [...]

Byline: Chiara Naomi Kaufman, Contributing Writer 'I stand myself and my art squarely on the self-defining ground of the slave quarters,' playwright August Wilson remarks in his speech 'The Ground [...]

Byline: SOPHIA UNGARO, TRINITY GOMEZ, ANA CRUZ, ANGIE ORELLANA HERNANDEZ, KATE SEQUEIRA, CARLOS GOMEZ, ASTRID KAYEMBE In celebration of Latinx Heritage Month, Daily Trojan staff members and editors have selected [...]

Following a summer of heightened racial and political tension compounded by the devastation of COVID-19, Westmont Theatre seeks to acknowledge current issues in its first production of the school year, [...]

The first work by the newly formed Adelphi Alumni Playwrights Group is coming to a Zoom near you! On Tuesday, September 1, the group will present Buffering..., an inaugural evening [...]

Byline: Lizzie Kaboski Cardinal Stage has commissioned playwrights from across the country to create a series of short plays that can be performed at home for fun, according to its [...]

Last updated on July 7, 2020 Why Are Austrian Brides So Popular? The inventors of croissants (yes, the Austrians invented these pastry delicacies, not the French), Austrians know their desserts. [...]

Byline: Shane Nyman A playwright with a long history at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has been staying busy while most of the arts world remains on hiatus. Professor emeritus [...]

Byline: Emma Kirwin Stephen Chartrand- The Brock Press Two weekends ago on a balmy Saturday evening, along the beautiful Queen Street strip on Niagara-on-the-Lake, I went to Shaw Festivals' old [...]

Byline: Emma Kirwin That burning feeling Illusion and black magic come together in a presentation brought by The Department of Dramatic Arts of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine [...]

Sir Kenneth Branagh wants to make an animated Shakespeare film. The 59-year-old actor has directed a number of movies based on William Shakespeare plays, including 'Much Ado About Nothing' and [...]

Fiction: 1. Henrietta & Eleanor: A Retelling of Jekyll and Hyde: An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson, Libby Spurrier - dramatist, narrated by Holliday Grainger, Clive Mantle, Carla [...]

Byline: Kevin Chrisco Bloomington Playwrights Project is located at 107 W. 9th St. The Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Adirondack Theatre Festival will present a series of interactive virtual experiences [...]

Byline: Alex Deryn Bloomington Playwrights Project is located at 107 W. 9th St. The Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Adirondack Theatre Festival will present a series of interactive virtual experiences [...]

A small town bakery becomes a battleground for marriage equality as family ties, religious identity and progressive values clash in the latest comedy from Pittsburgh Public Theater. 'The Cake' is [...]

Byline: Lisi Merkley Big art, small package: Tiny plays offered to stage at home Playwright Tre'von Griffith appears in a self-portrait. Griffith is part of a national initiative called 'Play [...]

Byline: Alexandria Esteban Post Views: 81 Courtesy of UCR Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production via Youtube Playworks is an annual event where UCR Undergraduates and MFA playwrights can [...]

Caili Harris '23 (Lexington, Kentucky) and alumna Tory Parker '16 recently participated in the Kentucky Theatre Association's Quarantine Bake-Off. Harris won first place in the college division for her play [...]

The Richland Theatre Department held its 4th annual Golden Duckie Awards (a rubber duck, spray painted gold) May 7, an event that celebrates the hard work of talented thespians, playwrights, [...]

Byline: Jared Wadley ANN ARBOR--The University of Michigan announced the 2020 graduate and undergraduate winners of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards and other writing contests administered by the Hopwood [...]

Byline: Sophie Dewees Dahlak Brathwaite digitally returned to his alma mater to help students find new meaning 'How do you look at a text and find rhyme? How do you [...]

Byline: Natalie Francis Sarah Mergen '19 is/was the director and playwright of TheaterLab's 'HAL' (2020). Adapted from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV Parts One & Two,' the futuristic multimedia show would have [...]

Byline: Natalie Francis Sarah Mergen '19 is/was the director and playwright of TheaterLab's 'HAL' (2020). Adapted from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV Parts One & Two,' the futuristic multimedia show would have [...]

Byline: Hannah Purdy Shakespeare is ubiquitous. You grew up reading his plays in grade school, watching movies based on his works, maybe even quoting him without knowing it. That's how [...]

Byline: Sarah Gyurina Leaving campus in the middle of the semester has left countless parts of the Hamilton experience unfulfilled: championships cancelled, thesis research halted, and friendships cut short by [...]

The German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht once wrote, 'In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark [...]

Byline: Michaela Drouillard Walking past Segal's, the beloved Saint-Laurent grocery store, you may have noticed the phrase '#FringeBuzz' plastered to the windows on the second floor. Behind those windows is [...]

Byline: Alex Strangman Minutes before the stream even went live, the comment section was buzzing with activity as people from across the globe tuned in for live script readings of [...]

Byline: Hannah Keating Plan B Theatre has gone where very few theaters can during Salt Lake City's recent stay-at-home directive -- their show did indeed go on. With only six [...]

Byline: Kenneth Fremer Sherry Pie, the drag persona of Joey Gugliemelli, has been disqualified from the 12th season of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' following a series of allegations by at least [...]

Byline: Lily Roby COVID-19 has caused countless disruptions in coursework for both Ohio University faculty and students, but one group that has had an especially difficult time transitioning to online [...]

Byline: Alex Yanez 'Detroit '67' is a play written by Dominique Morisseau, a playwright and actress. It depicts a struggling black family trying to make ends meet by starting a [...]

Byline: Kaitlin Cho For four days, Harper Joy Theatre enthralled audiences with four farces. The stage showcased a marriage feast ruined by all parties involved, a bitterly loyal and loyally [...]

Vaginas--over half of the world's got one. But in the 1990s, playwright Eve Ensler thought that we weren't talking about them enough. So she created the Vagina Monologues. She went [...]