Dramatists Guild Foundation News

GIANT, starring two-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow as Roald Dahl and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Nicholas Hytner, will host Playwrights’ Night On Broadway at the Music Box Theatre.

The Broadway Women's Fund revealed its 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway list, the seventh list from the fund spotlighting women in leadership in theater.

National Queer Theater has revealed its programming for the 2026 Criminal Queerness Festival, which for eight years has showcased groundbreaking new works written by artists from countries where queerness is criminalized or censored.

Performances are now underway for Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis. Meet the cast of Dog Day Afternoon here!

KBO Theatre Company will present a staged reading of 'PRAIRIE COTEAU' by Liam Mitchell, directed by Angelina Kristic, featuring a cast of notable actors. The event is set for March 13th and 14th at the Dramatists Guild Foundation in Manhattan.

The Contemporary American Theater Festival will present its 2026 season, featuring a diverse array of new plays. The festival aims to showcase innovative American theater through world premieres and contemporary works.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 28, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Dramatists Guild Foundation has revealed the 2026 class of National Fellows. The Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows Program unites playwrights and musical theater writers in the learning process for a year-long intensive.

Midnight Snack Productions is kicking off their Bread 'n' Butter Developmental Reading Series with a one-night reading of What's the Buzz? by David Rigano.

The Kleban Foundation has announced the recipients of the 36th annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre. The winners are Eric Price and Phillip Christian Smith. Learn more here!

'The Diary,' a new play written by Claude Solnik and directed by Deborah Rupy starring Charles E. Gerber as Otto and Eva Gozé as Anne Frank , debuts at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., for a run Jan. 10-25.

HARP Theatricals will bring Amelia Kennedy's poignant short play I Keep Leaving Parties Early, directed by Heather Bildman, to The Rat's inaugural Gala-Thon.

Conch Shell Productions announced the festival presentation of Stand Right There and Perish, or (May I Never Lose You), a new work by award-winning Bahamian-born playwright Petron Dee Brown.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 19, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The Dramatists Guild Foundation has named Syracuse Stage as the 2025 recipient of the Lucille Lortel Foundation Indigenous Theatermaker Award for their work to showcase the importance of Indigenous storytelling.

The Ally Artists Group and Eagle Project will present The First Global Indigenous and First Nations  Playwrights and Composers' Event. The title of this year’s event is, 'Indigenous Voices: A Celebration of Playwrights and Composers'.

The Ally Artists Group and Eagle Project have announced The First Global Indigenous and First Nations  Playwrights and Composers' Event.  The title of this year’s event is,  'Indigenous Voices: A Celebration of Playwrights and Composers.'

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of a new play, “The Machine.' The plot focuses on a poet suffering writer’s block, artificial intelligence, and the tricky questions that arise when technology starts writing art. 

The KBO Theatre Company will present a staged reading of The Dealers/Part Deux, a new play written, directed, and cast by award-winning director and producer Angelina Kristic.

The Hermitage Artist Retreat’s “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” series will continue November 20, 2025, with An Evening of Scenes & Songs at Historic Spanish Point in Osprey, Florida.