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Lucille Lortel Theatre Reveals Artistic Programming Including 121 Project, 11 New Commissions, and More
by Stephi Wild - Oct 9, 2025

The Lucille Lortel Theatre has announced new artistic programming that deepens the historic theater's impact on the Off-Broadway community and the field nationally. Learn more here!

Barra Grant’s New Comedy GO PLAY! Runs Through November 2 At Odyssey Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 3, 2025

Barra Grant’s new comedy GO PLAY! is running through November 2, 2025 at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. The play follows three strangers and their dogs at a local dog park, where the four-legged companions provide witty commentary on their humans’ messy lives.

Photo Exclusive: GO PLAY! At The Odyssey Theatre First Look
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 18, 2025

The Odyssey Theatre will present the world premiere of GO PLAY!, a new comedy written and directed by Barra Grant (Miss America’s Ugly Daughter, A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun). See photos of the production.

GO PLAY! Sets Cast and Creative Team for World Premiere at Odyssey Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 6, 2025

Pageant Productions has announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of GO PLAY!, a heartwarming new comedy written and directed by award-winning writer Barra Grant.

Lineup Set for SOLFEST 2024 Featuring New Work by Anne García-Romero, Phanésia Pharel & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 25, 2024

The Sol Project has revealed the complete lineup for the seventh annual SolFest: A Latiné Theater Festival, produced in partnership with Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn Names New Members for 2024/2025 Season
by Stephi Wild - Sep 18, 2024

The Playwrights Cohort at PlayPenn acknowledges that there is no one way to be a playwright, artist, or freelancer. This year-long think tank affords emerging playwrights the opportunity to network with other working professionals and pulls back the curtain on the careers of luminaries such as James Ijames, Emmanual Wilson, and Todd London.

PlayGround-LA Season 12 Monday Night PlayGround Blasts Off With ORIGIN STORY Next Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Sep 24, 2023

Join PlayGround for a new round of Monday Night PlayGround, featuring original short plays all inspired by the prompt 'Origin Story', Monday, October 09, 7pm PT, live at Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast online. Get all the event information here!

IAMA's Emerging Playwrights Lab to Culminate in Two Weekends of Free Playreadings in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 27, 2023

IAMA Theatre Company will present staged readings of six new plays written by members of the company’s 2022-23 Emerging Playwrights Lab.

THAT MUST BE THE ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN Comes to the Urbanite Theatre
by Stephi Wild - May 18, 2023

Urbanite Theatre will present a second World Premiere for its final production of the 2022/23 season, THAT MUST BE THE ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN by Franky D. Gonzalez. This production was first commissioned by Urbanite Theatre in 2020 as part of the Charles Rowan Beye New Play Initiative.

Six Diverse L.A.-Based Playwrights Selected for IAMA's 2022-23 'Emerging Playwright Lab'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 19, 2022

IAMA Theatre Company has selected six Los Angeles-based playwrights to participate in this year’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, an artistic home and writing community that fosters playwrights of varied backgrounds, vocations and skill levels.

Playwright Incubator PlayGround-LA Announces 11th Season Of New Plays
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 15, 2022

PlayGround-LA, Los Angeles's leading incubator for a new generation of playwrights, has shared plans for its eleventh season.

THE PLAY YOU WANT Extends Through June 19 at The Road Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Apr 27, 2022

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, are thrilled to announce that the critically acclaimed, world premiere production of THE PLAY YOU WANT, written by Bernardo Cubría and directed by Michael John Garcés will have a three-week extension following its announced closing on April 24.

BWW Review: BARBS APLENTY IN SATIRE THE PLAY THAT YOU WANT at Road Theatre
by Evan Henerson - Mar 25, 2022

The satirical juices flow through Michael John Garces’ production of THE PLAY YOU WANT. Set in the present day, the play offers a bunch of well-known, real-life figures who are sent up and ultimately knocked down to make Cubria’s point.

Wake Up With BWW 2/21: Ariana Grande Visits WICKED on Broadway, and More!
by - Feb 21, 2022

Ariana Grande visited Wicked on Broadway yesterday, and shared praise for the show's leads, Lindsay Heather Pearce and Brittney Johnson, on her Instagram story. Plus, watch Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker discuss Plaza Suite on CBS Sunday Morning, and check out the premiere of new web series The Aging Ingenue, starring Sara Jean Ford, Vishal Vaidya, Ashley Blanchet, and Will Reynolds.

BWW Interview: Playwright Bernardo Cubria on Realizing THE PLAY YOU WANT & The Newborn He Wants
by Gil Kaan - Feb 20, 2022

The Road Theatre Company returns to live performances with the world premiere of Bernardo Cubria’s THE PLAY YOU WANT March 1, 2022; the first of three plays performing in repertory. Michael John Garcés directs the cast of Peter Pasco, Chelsea Gonzalez, Natalie Llerena, Jonathan Nichols, Roland Ruiz, Christopher Larkin, Stewart J. Zully and Presciliana Esparolini. I had the chance to query Bernardo on THE PLAY YOU WANT and his other important upcoming projects.

Prime Video Renews SMOTHERED For Season Season
by Michael Major - Jan 17, 2022

The cast for Season 2 is Amanda Bearse (Bros & Married With Children), Jai Rodriguez (Bros & Queer Eye), Bobby Costanza (Friends), Aida Rodriguez (HBOMax Comedy Special: Fighting Words), Armand Fields (Queer As Folk), Debra Wilson (Mad TV & Star Wars Jedi), Krishna Smitha (Morning Show), Bryon Quiros (General Hospital), and more.

The Voices Of America Writers Workshop Presents Excerpts From Work In Development This Week
by Stephi Wild - Dec 6, 2021

The sixth group of writers to take part in The PlayGround Experiment's exciting new workshop are Nadia Andrade, Maria Arreola, Sergio Garcia, Peter Pasco, Germôna Sharp, and Linett Luna Tovar. The workshop culminates on December 10th with a public presentation of excerpts from these writers' new works.

Third Annual Faces of America Monologue Festival Takes Place This Month
by Stephi Wild - Nov 16, 2021

On Saturday November 20th at 7pm ET / 4pm PT The PlayGround Experiment will be hosting its third annual Faces of America Monologue Festival to help raise funds to support Native American Rights Fund. 

PlayGround-LA Announces November 8 Monday Night PlayGround
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 29, 2021

Following the successful opening of Season 10 earlier this month, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has recently announced the prompt for the next Monday Night PlayGround short play staged reading event. Thirty-six Los Angeles writers had just four-and-a-half days to generate their original scripts inspired by the prompt 'WHODUNNIT' as they vie for one of six slots in the second round of this year's Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series, presented live at The Broadwater Second Stage and simulcast online on November 8th at 7pm PT.

PlayGround-LA Announces Monday Night PlayGround
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 5, 2021

On the eve of the return to in-person theatre and PlayGround's expansion to New York, Los Angeles playwright incubator PlayGround-LA has chosen the prompt of 'rebirth' as inspiration for the opening Monday Night PlayGround of Season 10.