David Henry Hwang News

East West Players, the nation's longest running theatre of color and the largest producer of Asian American artistic work, is excited to announce a premier livestream concert to kick off their 55th anniversary season, Between Worlds.

Esteemed American playwrights Ed Bullins, Constance Congdon, and Philip Kan Gotanda have been announced as the inaugural recipients of the Legacy Playwrights Initiative Award(s). The winners will be recognized by their friends and peers at the Dramatists Guild Foundation “Write in the Dark” virtual benefit on December 21, 2020.

Broadway On Demand will present #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a ground-breaking production of this year’s seven selected 10-minute plays confronting gun violence, written and submitted by high school students from across the country.

Goodman Theatre will participate in the Digital Premiere of seven winning 10-minute plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence—a national short play competition for middle and high school students.

MILE SQUARE THEATRE has announced its participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students.

The Alliance Theatre has announced its participation in the Digital Premiere of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students, in-collaboration with fellow partner theatres including Arizona Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, and South Coast Repertory. Starting on December 14, 2020 — the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook — the winning titles will be available on the streaming platform Broadway on Demand.

1st Stage is participating in the ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence project, working with visionary teenage playwrights across the country who have come together to speak out against gun violence. 

On February 6th and 7th, the American Alliance for Theatre & Education and the Dramatist Guild Foundation will be co-hosting 'Everyone's a Playwright: Writing as a Teaching Tool and Expressive Engine.'

On Dec. 14, the 8-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook, the South Bend Civic Theatre will take part in a  national reading of seven plays addressing gun violence. The plays are part of #ENOUGH: Plays To End Gun Violence,  national short play competition for middle and high school students. 

THIRD RAIL REPERTORY THEATRE has announced its participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students. On December 14, 2020 — the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook — the winning titles will be performed at THIRD RAIL and over 48 other theatres and schools across the country and abroad.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Metro Theater Company will present #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence – a yearlong theatre initiative that encourages teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre, culminating in simultaneous staged readings across the country on Dec. 14.

Azuka Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company and the Philadelphia Region of the Dramatists Guild of America announce their participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students. On December 14, 2020 -- the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook -- the winning titles will be performed on Zoom in Philadelphia and at nearly 50 other theatres and schools across the country and abroad.

Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company has announced its participation in the Nationwide Reading of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students.

Nine students from the Tucson area, Mesa and Laveen participating in Arizona Theatre Company's ATCteen program are playing key roles in the digital premiere of seven winning plays from #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students.

The awards nominated six musicals from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the West End - 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'American Utopia,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'The Prince of Egypt,' 'Soft Power,' and Amélie.' 

Singular Sensation by Michael Riedel picks up where Razzle Dazzle, his bestselling account of the battle for Broadway, drops off: when audiences craved more than the British mega-productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the famed theater strip reached new heights with the productions of Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers.

Berkeley Rep announces its participation in the Digital Premiere of the seven winning plays of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence, a national short play competition for middle and high school students, in-collaboration with fellow partner theatres including Alliance Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company,Goodman Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, and South Coast Repertory. Starting on December 14, 2020 -- the 8-year remembrance of the shootings at Sandy Hook -- the winning titles will be available on the streaming platform Broadway on Demand.

Need something new to read, watch, or listen to? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases! This week's list includes a book of stories behind the musical Jagged Little Pill, the Moulin Rouge! songbook, and more!

An indispensable new book for the theater, Cast of Mentors, by Tony Award-winning producer Ken Davenport will be released this holiday season. A deep dive into the workings of Broadway from Broadway's own, Cast of Mentors features choice excerpts from interviews with 50 theatrical luminaries, all from Davenport's own podcast.