American Playwrights News

Juilliard has detailed the full programming for its 2024-25 season, with more than 800 live music, dance, and drama performances at the school and beyond. The 2024-25 academic year and performance season offer a wealth of new music, world premieres, and new festivals that bring students, guest artists, and artistic leaders together from different disciplines.

In collaboration with Duluth Playhouse, New Native Theatre will present Fallenstar: The Watchoverers, an exciting new superhero play by Ramón Esquivel. Running October 11 - 13, 2024 at the NorShor Theatre, this Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) play has been commissioned by the BIPOC Superhero Project.

Hundreds of lovers of new theatre will gather this August for an advance look at tomorrow's hits at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 21st Annual New Works Festival, running August 9-18. See the full lineup here!

St Jude's Players will present SILENT SKY by Lauren Gunderson.

The New Harmony Project introduces PlayFest Indy, a new festival celebrating innovative plays and playwrights in Indianapolis.

Playwrights Horizons has announced Casey York as its new Managing Director.

The Board of Trustees of Second Stage Theater have announced that Evan Cabnet, currently Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3, will be Second Stage Theater’s new Artistic Director.

Ma-Yi Theater Company has announced a call for applications to the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest resident company of Asian-American playwrights ever assembled.

Urbanite Theatre has announced its 2024/25 season, which will celebrate its eleventh year with three regional premieres and one world premiere, along with the return of the Modern Works Festival.

The short film Music in the Air from Tom Cavanaugh and AJ Ciccotelli will screen on Friday, June 28th at 6:00pm for the Gala Opening Night Shorts Program at Jersey Shore Film Festival. The screening will be held at the Baronet Rooftop at the Asbury Hotel.

In this edition, we hear from Manhattan Theatre Club Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Director Chris Jennings, who contributed the below essay about their three  Tony-nominated plays, Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Prayer for the French Republic, and Mary Jane.

Dig Deep Theatre's production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie will run for 8 performances at The MAIN in Santa Clarita, June 14, 15, 16 & June 21, 22, 23.

Desert Ensemble Theatre will present the final reading of the season, HENRY MAKES A BIBLE by AJ Clauss, on June 11.

The American Theatre Wing will relaunch of ATW’s National Theatre Company Grants program. Learn more about the program and see how to apply.

The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (NC Black Rep) in conjunction with Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity and Wake the Arts Initiative, along with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, have announced dates for the world premieres of two plays whose playwrights each won a $10,000 commission from the Finding Holy Ground: Performing Visions of Race and Justice in America project.

The Acting Company has revealed its 2024-2025 season featuring Play On Shakespeare's THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, promising an exciting lineup of performances. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Center at West Park will present a reading of John Leguizamo's new play Our Hood, an innovative adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, on May 30th and 31st as part of their American Playwrights Series.

The Cape Cod Theatre Project has announced its 30th Season of New Plays, running weekend nights in July from July 5 through July 28 at Falmouth Academy's Simon Center for the Arts.

Stray Dog Theatre (SDT) will continue its twenty-first season with a production of Ripcord at the Tower Grove Abbey, opening on Thursday, June 6, 2024 and running through Saturday, June 22, 2024.

Explore the thought-provoking and humorous play YELLOW FACE at Lyric Stage Boston, delving into themes of identity and cultural perception.