Matthew Lombardo’s “When Playwrights Kill” begins at the Huntington Theatre with a young guy telling an anecdote about Neil Simon and Mary Tyler Moore. You might expect that a Neil Simon play is ...

Jessie Jones, a TV actress who became a succesful playwright with “Dearly Departed” and the Jones Hope Wooten Comedies, died March 20 in Washington, D.C. after a long illness. Her friend and writing ...

New York City welcomes a bountiful gathering of Off-Broadway stage productions this Spring, focusing on sisterhood, motherhood, and family: Chinese Republicans (Alex Lin, Roundabout Theatre), Meat ...

Off Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons is being sued for discrimination over a one-night discount during its run of Nazareth Hassan’s Practice. A New Jersey–based musician named Kevin Lynch ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit, against the prominent Off Broadway theater, is backed by Edward Blum, who has long challenged race-based policies. Playwrights called it ...

Tom Stoppard, the Academy and Tony Award-winning British playwright and screenwriter, has died at the age of 88. Stoppard’s agents confirmed his death to the BBC, noting in a statement that he “died ...

In addition to his five Tony Awards for Best Play, Stoppard won the Academy Award in in 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love" and was nominated in 1985 for "Brazil." Tom Stoppard, the brilliant, beloved ...

Cleage is known for her transformative plays centering on Black women's experiences. Pearl Cleage, an acclaimed writer known for her emphasis on Black feminist ideology, now reigns as a 2025 recipient ...

At a grand opening celebration on September 20, visitors toured the Playwrights' Center's new building — double the size of its old — in St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone. Credit: Sheila Regan For ...

After years of planning and construction, the nationally recognized Playwrights’ Center has officially moved to St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone and is ready to open to the public this weekend. The ...

One of the beams supporting the vibrant theater scene here in South Florida is the number of local playwrights we have in the region. So it’s not entirely surprising that as the “season” starts ...