Taji Senior

Discover the talents of two emerging directors as Keen Company collaborates with The Drama League for DIRECTORFEST at Theatre Row. Learn more!

Kaite Folger is set to premiere her one-woman show, GETTING IN BED WITH THE PIZZA MAN at El Portal in May 2024.

Ground Floor Theatre launches 'GFT Writes,' a playwriting intensive program. Inaugural playwrights and director of new works announced.

The Playwrights Realm will present a one-week extension of the world premiere production of 2021/22 Realm Writing Fellow Emma Horwitz’s Mary Gets Hers.

Bernarda's Daughters celebrates Haitian Flag Day with a post-show panel and reception following the 7:30pm performance on Thursday, May 18, when The New Group and National Black Theatre host “Tout Moun Se Moun,” a panel featuring Haitian-American artists and cultural workers in discussion about the presence of Haitian art and culture in New York City and elsewhere in the diaspora. 

The New Group and National Black Theatre have released production photos of the world premiere of Bernarda's Daughters, by Diane Exavier, directed by Dominique Rider, featuring Pascale Armand, Alana Raquel Bowers, Kristin Dodson, Malika Samuel, Taji Senior and Tamara Tunie.

What's happening off-Broadway? BroadwayWorld is helping you pick what to see next by rounding up our top recommended theatre each month. Coming up off-Broadway this May is a world premiere musical, a revival of a classic musical, and much more. 

Indie-Film darling Katie Folger will present the premiere of her new show, Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man written by and performed by Katie Folger directed by Matrex Kilgore.

The New Group and National Black Theatre have announced complete casting for the world premiere of Bernarda’s Daughters, by Diane Exavier, directed by Dominique Rider. See who is starring, and learn how to purchase tickets!

What did our critic think of NIGHTBIRD at Austin Playhouse?

Austin Playhouse has announced the cast for the world premiere of Nightbird by R. Eric Thomas and directed by Marcus McQuirter playing March 3–26, 2023.

As part of their free virtual salon series, Wingspace Theatrical Design will present a conversation with four of the creators of Monuments of the Future: Anya Klepikov, Elisa Gonzales, Rudy Ramirez, and Calypso Michelet, moderated by E.L. Hohn.

Austin Playhouse announces the first thirteen features for Austin Playfest, a collaborative virtual theatre festival celebrating Austin's creativity and resilience during the pandemic running November 11–15, 2021.

New Manifest Theatre Company will return with the third annual Manifest Minifest short play festival on October 13 - 16, 2021. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will stream on YouTube for free. Donations are accepted.

Austin Playhouse announces Austin Playfest, a collaborative virtual theatre festival celebrating Austin's creativity and resilience during the pandemic running November 11–15, 2021.

The Tank will present their third annual Lady Fest, featuring new work by some of the most exciting lady-identified artists out there, in celebration of womxnhood and the female voice, in all its glory.

MONROE, a world premiere production, directed by Lara Toner Haddock, is the latest play by Lisa B. Thompson. The script is a heart warming and funny look at a Southern family. What makes it a remarkable evening of theatre is that it also shows how racial terror affects the minds and lives of these African Americans and their great strength that allows them to maintain their faith in a better tomorrow.Thompson has created some wonderful characters in this new play and shows that she has a deft hand at creating dialogue that leaps off the page. There's great wit here as well as heart. The scenes between the three women in the cast are absolutely delightful and the three actresses wring every possible laugh out of the audience with ease. MONROE reveals Thompson be a writer of great range as this new work is worlds away from her award winning play Underground, which won the 2017 Austin Critics' Table David Mark Cohen New Play Award.

'A' is at war. In a constant battle with herself and the world around her, 'A' takes comfort in her relationship with God, her patient and compassionate friend who offers 'A' stillness and understanding. But just as she thinks she's finally come to understand her own existence, God goes missing leaving 'A' to confront an antagonistic Narrator whose true identity may lead her to the peace she so desperately hopes to find.

Austin Playhouse recently produced staged readings of the three winning plays from their Festival of New Texas Plays. EIDOPHUSIKON by Reina Hardy kicked off the festival on Friday, April 27, NUTSHELL by C. Denby Swanson was on Saturday, April 28, and MONROE by Lisa B. Thompson concluded the lineup on Sunday, April 29. Along with the professional staged reading, which featured Austin Playhouse directors and company members, each of the winning playwrights received a $500 prize.

TWENTYEIGHT, a 2014 play by Tyler English-Beckwith, is a look at eight laborers who are trying to finish the shuttle that will carry them to the Liberian Space Station. This Space Station (also known as the L.S.S.) is a refuge for people of color. It seems that in this very Dystopian future, things, for people of color, are even more violent and oppressive than things are now. This, as an audience member, isn't very comforting. Indeed, this is a short oppressive theatrical experience you aren't likely to forget easily. The world we know is long gone. A rubble of ruins. People of Color have been crammed into settlements, where they work on projects just like this shuttle. What keeps them at work are the faceless Enforcers and a distant dream of liberation. There is the pull and allure of that promised place where what is wrong magically becomes a place of blessings, joys and riches. Isn't that, after all, the promise of all regions? Your heaven in amongst the various heavens.