Lanford Wilson News

The North American Premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, directed by John Perrin Flynn, will launch Rogue Machine’s new season on their mainstage. Learn more here!

Resurrection Theatre will present THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, running October 31 through November 22, 2025 at the California Stage Complex in Sacramento.

The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival at the Dobbins Conservatory of Southeast Missouri State University has new leadership: Co-Artistic Directors Charles Goforth and Tim Nicolai and Managing Director Lisa Fischel. Kenneth L. Stilson returns in the capacity of Founding Executive Director. Former Artistic Director Kitt Lavoie departs after shepherding the festival from an idea to five successful seasons and a national profile.

Scenic designer John Lee Beatty will be honored with the Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design bestowed by the Henry Hewes Design Awards .

McCarter Theatre Center has announced the all-woman creative team behind the highly anticipated world premiere of I & You: The Musical. It is inspired by Lauren Gunderson’s internationally acclaimed play by the same name. 

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (BPT) just announced its 2025-2026 season—a line-up of bold new plays that cross cultures, generations and borders, featuring stories of love, intersectionality and resistance.

New York City's oldest and longest producing LGBTQIA+ theater company TOSOS will present let's talk about anything else, a new dark comedy about bugs, strangers in the woods, and the unrelenting grasp of guilt written by Anthony Anello.

Tennis legend and social justice icon Billie Jean King attended the August 5 performance of Billie Jean at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, joined by her wife Ilana Kloss. See a photo from her visit.

Ozzie Rodriguez, a beloved figure in the experimental theater community and longtime Director of La MaMa’s Archives, has died at age 81. A playwright, actor, director, visual artist, and master archivist, Rodriguez passed away in New York City on Thursday, July 24, 2025.

The new play Haters Gonna Hate, a teen comedy by rising playwright Justin Borak, is set to make its mark with a private industry reading in August, produced by Theresa Pittius.

Margaret Curry will bring her celebrated solo cabaret The Space In-Between to Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zédel in London on Thursday, August 28 at 9:15 p.m.

What happens when a great American actor has a special gift for songwriting and singing solo.

Capital Stage’s 2024–25 Apprentice Company will present the 10th Annual Apprentice Showcase with a production of Thank You for Your Order by Jessica Moss, running July 1–13, 2025.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the cast and creative team of the world premiere play Billie Jean, about sports icon and equality champion Billie Jean King.

Deep Flight Productions presents WHO WE BECOME, a trilogy of rarely produced one-act plays by Lanford Wilson performed in repertory. Learn more and see how to attend!

DOG DAY AFTERNOON, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, based on the legendary true crime story, will open on Broadway in the spring of 2026. We have all of the details here!

South Philadelphia-based theatre company Theatre Exile wilconclude its 2024–25 season with the East Coast premiere of Glitter in the Glass, a wildly funny and thought-provoking new play by award-winning writer R. Eric Thomas.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company (PRTC) has announced the final production of their 34th season, “Bert & Trixie Visit the Vet” a World Premiere comedy written by Matt Letscher. Tickets are on sale now.

Hulu has dropped the first teaser trailer for All's Fair, a new legal drama series from TV guru Ryan Murphy. Soundtracked to a rendition of Chicago's 'Cell Block Tango,' the teaser also showcases the all-star cast, including Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close. Watch the teaser now!

Capital Stage has announced its final piece to the 2025/26 Season to be performed during the holiday season. Charming, mysterious, and poetic in the truest sense of the word, Lauren Gunderson's I AND YOU is a study of the beauty, the agony, and the mystery of human connection.