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Byline: Brian Truitt USA TODAY The first day of filming Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson' was emotional for Denzel Washington as he watched his two sons work - Malcolm directing and [...]

The Tower Records on Broad Street, the Borders bookstore on Chestnut, and the Kitchen Kapers boutique at the corner of Walnut and 17th Streets in Philadelphia: The playwright James Ijames [...]

Larissa FastHorse never imagined that some of her most frustrating professional experiences would serve as inspiration for the script that would change her life. An Indigenous playwright from South Dakota, [...]

Elvis Costello and Sarah Ruhl's musical adaptation of the 1957 film, a satire about a hustler turned power-hungry TV personality, hits the London stage. Stop me if you think you [...]

As the acclaimed ''Counting and Cracking'' makes its North American debut, the playwright describes the work as ''my soul on a plate.'' The playwright S. Shakthidharan has lived in Australia [...]

Byline: Charlotte Burks By Charlotte Burks Published Oct. 16, 2024, 9:16 p.m., last updated Oct. 16, 2024, 9:16 p.m. Michi Barall '93, an actress and playwright, premiered her play 'Drawing [...]

LAS VEGAS, NE -- The following information was released by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV): Just like in The Simpsons TV show, there's a wealth of cultural references [...]

Cole Escola, the actor and playwright, stood before a mirror at a pastel-colored studio in Manhattan's garment district, holding a spray of white satin flowers in one hand. ''The calla [...]

The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut. Annie Baker has amassed multiple awards for her idiosyncratic and deeply observed plays, including the Pulitzer Prize [...]

Byline: Cameron Pugh Staff writer Abstract: 'The Outsiders' offers a timely - and tuneful - reminder that differences that seem so intractable might not be impossible to overcome after all. [...]

A new musical aims to restore the reputation, in life and art, of the ambitious yet undervalued painter Tamara de Lempicka. The playwright Carson Kreitzer specializes in difficult women, disparaged [...]

A new musical from Jason Robert Brown, Daisy Prince and Jonathan Marc Sherman explores the diverging trajectories of two young writers in the late 1990s. The director Daisy Prince had [...]

As with so many family reunion plays, the squabbling Lafayette siblings in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's ''Appropriate'' dislodge their share of skeletons from the closets of their childhood home, a former plantation [...]

Vichet Chum, a Cambodian American playwright, often focuses his work on Khmer identity and queerness. His Sundays are spent with fellow artists and his dog, Lucy. Vichet Chum, a Cambodian [...]

A surprisingly tender one-man show guides us through the dubious business of tutoring the children of striving New York parents. Of the many vexing demands made of eighth graders applying [...]

Byline: Isa Meyers Staff writer Abstract: As her country tries to come to terms with genocide, one Rwandan artist wants to leave a legacy for the next generation that focuses [...]

BRAD WHEELER Hannah Moscovitch's first fulllength play was 2007's East of Berlin, a psychological thriller about a son of a Nazi. Her Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, concerning an [...]

We spoke with two actors and two playwrights who will be in the spotlight this season. Emma Horwitz The playwright Emma Horwitz has lived in New York most of her […]

Her work, including the new ''Infinite Life,'' involves silences full of meaning. But what exactly they convey can change depending on the director. ''The Flick,'' a play by Annie Baker, [...]

The new Broadway comedy ''The Cottage'' begins with a pair of lovers in an English country house in 1923, the morning after their annual illicit tryst. Sylvia, played by the [...]

Byline: Victoria Munck Tarell Alvin McCraney is facing the future of the Los Angeles theater scene. The Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright was recently named the new artistic director of [...]

Levi Holloway on his psychological thriller starring Laurie Metcalf: ''It wears the jacket of horror. But I think it's more heart than horror.'' When it comes to plays that inspire [...]

Ruth Rogers: Nina had this impressive C.V. -- she'd directed plays at Oxford -- which didn't really qualify her to be a waiter, but of course we took her [in [...]

Can you collaborate with your mother, a Pulitzer-winning playwright, and develop your own voice too? Ruby Aiyo Gerber wasn't too scared to try. Ruby Aiyo Gerber: For so long, I [...]

Paula Vogel: In my advanced playwriting class at Brown, there was an exercise where I asked people to write a play with a dog as protagonist, and Sarah wrote about [...]

Anna Deavere Smith: I have a mentee named Samora Pinderhughes [who's a musician and multidisciplinary artist], and he does an exercise with my N.Y.U. class where he brings in jazz [...]

Danai Gurira: For Dominique to be out there now is thrilling. We're both children of immigrants and, though our journeys are different [Thorne's family is from Trinidad; Gurira's is from [...]

Bernardine Evaristo helped start London's Theatre of Black Women in the early 1980s when creative opportunities were slim. She sees a similar determination to ''shape our own future'' in the [...]

The musical's creator and creative team discuss their influences, including ''Days of Our Lives,'' ''Showgirls'' and D'Angelo. Hearing Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of ''A Strange Loop,'' [...]

Byline: Harry Bruinius Staff writer Abstract: How are themes of religion and spirituality explored on modern stages? Two playwrights discuss their work, and how human vulnerability - and hope - [...]

Byline: J. KELLY NESTRUCK; Staff In the fall of 2021, William Shakespeare's As You Like It opened at Crow's Theatre in Toronto in what was billed as a 'radical retelling' [...]