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Expand the Canon announced a debut monologue collection featuring 100+ classical pieces from plays by women between 1640 and 1987, spanning 34 playwrights across 15 countries, edited by Artistic Director Emily Lyon.
The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick announced its first season in a new RIBA award-winning building, featuring six productions including Ian McKellen in LEAR and a 50th-anniversary revival of FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF.
Daryl Stewart Productions will present a one-night-only staging of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf at the Newark Museum of Art, marking the choreopoem's 50th anniversary.
The Public Theater has announced the lineup for The Public’s Fall 2026 and Winter 2027 season. The season lineup will include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, plus works from James Ijames, Ryan J. Haddad, Richard Nelson, Taylor Mac, and more.
Liza Jessie Peterson, recently cast in the final season of Paramount+ series THE CHI, will present her play SISTAH-GURLS AND THE SQUIRREL at Crossroads Theatre Company's 37th annual Genesis Festival in New Brunswick, NJ on April 11.
The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed its SummerScape 2026’s Spiegeltent programming, June 26 – August 15. Expanding the Fisher Center’s engagement with a vast range of artists, this year features 14 Spiegeltent debut performances.
BroadwayWorld chats with award-winning playwright Migdalia Cruz about the world premiere of her adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' running at the Magic Theatre from March 18 through April 5 in San Francisco.
The life and legacy of Woodie King Jr. (1937–2026) will be honored at a special tribute at the Shubert Organization’s Barrymore Theatre.
Oversoul Theatre Collective, Inc. is reintroducing a community-driven performance workshop in New Bedford, MA, aimed at fostering Black and Brown narratives through theater. The workshop, in collaboration with 3rd Eye Unlimited, began on February 10 and continues to accept new members. This initiative builds on the historic legacy of the New African Company, New England's oldest professional Black theater company.
Producer, director, and New Federal Theatre founder Woodie King Jr. passed away at 88 on January 29 following complications from emergency heart surgery.
McCarter Theatre Center announced that former Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann will receive the inaugural Roger S. Berlind Award at its annual gala on June 12, 2026.
World Stage Theatre Company will continue their Timeless and Relevant stories season with For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange will be presented by The Chocolate Box Theater Company in partnership with Planet Ant Theatre.
The DC theatre community and artists across the United States are mourning the loss of the visionary musical theatre and choreography genius, LaVerne Reed. A student of Maria “Libby” Hill (Apollo Theatre, Nicholas Brothers) Reed began her arts exploration as a young girl, eventually landing at The Juilliard School and later Howard University.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will present the return of the American Songbook series with a new season curated by producer, creative director, and Lincoln Center Artist-in-Residence Clint Ramos.
Mosaic Theater Company will present a workshop for CODE RED, a new play that illuminates day-to-day life in an environment perpetually alert—the American public school system.
The Entertainment Community Fund has revealed the five recipients of the 2025 Alex Dubé Scholarship Program. Learn more about the fund and about the recipients here.
As the fight for women to have equal rights and opportunities has evolved, so has the presence of plays telling these stories. When I wrote my book, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy that the History Books Left Out, the first-ever book about female musical theatre writers, I researched many musicals that are in this genre as well.
Woolley’s moving and layered script, developed over years in Nightwood’s Write From the Hip program, is like a firehose of neuroses, a constant barrage that drenches you with a mind that never shuts off and lungs that never take a breath.
The Underground Theater will present the West Coast Premiere of FOR COLORED BOYZ (on the verge of a nervous breakdown / when freedom ain't enuff), a choreopoem written and conceived by award-winning playwright Bryan-Keyth Wilson.
