It was a tiny comic bit: Behind a cupped hand, the gangster sniffed what could have been a bump of coke. Blink and you’d miss it, but the crowd in Toruń exploded with laughter. I exchanged puzzled ...

As the first year of TCG’s Funds for the Dolls draws to a close, we checked in with the grantees about what this support has meant—and what lies ahead. As one artistic director hands the reins to ...

That play was announced as part of the Arena Stage season last April with no pages, no treatment, and no title. Now, the story of Wallace “W” Tre and Free Dominic Mann, two gay Black men who meet ...

Over in Texas, Dallas Children’s Theater ’s board uses a process of gap analysis: analyzing and determining their organizational needs, then looking to find board members who can fill in the gaps to ...

In the singing land that is the musical theatre, orchestrators are too unsung. These showbiz pros do much to give a musical a distinctive sound and feel, and yet—the Tony Award for orchestrators ...

One day in a theatre class, my college’s technical director projected some bleak employment stats from Actors’ Equity on the wall and explained that life in the business would be tough. This was about ...

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us ...

In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...

I’ve watched you, Jonathan, in notes, in meetings—whenever anybody wants to get you to lock down to an un-nuanced position, you gently, lovingly, and earnestly explain to them that that’s not your ...

From the Editor Contributors From the Executive Office Front and Center: Alliance Theatre’s The Preacher’s Wife, discounts for young audiences, Black Out nights, Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of ...

Morgan Jenness, a force of nature who nurtured and inspired countless theatremakers as a dramaturg, agent, and activist, died on Nov. 12 at the age of 72. Taylor Mac’s full memorial tribute is here; ...

The U.S. Constitution has been called a living document, but it has seldom felt more alive than in Heidi Schreck’s searching, humane quasi-memoir What the Constitution Means to Me, which tops our list ...