Rajiv Joseph News

Company of Fools returns with another visceral, slice-of-life production to start off its 2021 season. It's not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse's office in their elementary school; she's got a painful stomach ache, and he's all banged up from a running dive off the roof of the school.

A striking production from the Adelaide University Theatre Guild.

Start spreading the news! Broadway is coming back to NYC this fall and with it, off-Broadway. Which shows will return when?

Deep cut productions is excited to present Rajiv Joseph's play Gruesome Playground Injuries performing at the Butterfly Club in May 2021.  This dark, comedic two hander explores shades of intimacy through physical injury, mental illness, grief and consent across a life long friendship.

Second Stage Theater has confirmed three Broadway productions at the Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Street) and two Off-Broadway productions at the Kiser Theater (305 West 43rd Street) for the return season, beginning performances in fall of 2021.

Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premier launchpad for plays and playwrights, has announced the semi finalists and finalists for the 44th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) scheduled to stream online July 16-25, 2021.

Today Steppenwolf Theatre Company shared that Anna D. Shapiro, who has served as Artistic Director since 2015, will step down from this role when her contract expires in August 2021.

The Theatre Guild is back in the Little Theatre for 2021, starting its season with Rajiv Joseph’s award winning play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.  

Today Steppenwolf Theatre Company unveiled its path to welcoming audiences back to the theater—and not the same one they left but a stunning new 50,000 sq. ft. theater building and education center on Halsted Street.

In November of 2020, Little Renegade Productions had just come off their inaugural production; She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms. In planning the rest of the season, CEO Kelsey Weinstein knew that the Zoom platform wasn't going to fit every show she had in mind for the season. Knowing it would be an ambitious task, the company set forward to produce a filmed version of a play, but rather in the style of a short film.

Following on the success of 'One Person,' streamed online in January, KNOW Theatre will present Rajiv Joseph's 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' for on-demand virtual performances from April 22-30. This production will be fully staged and recorded for online streaming whenever viewers want to watch.

Today, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Artistic Associate and Director of New Works Giovanna Sardelli will be inducted into University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) Hall of Fame.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will stream an advance look at tomorrow's hits in New Works Festival Online.

New American Voices, Queens Theatre's new play development program, is continuing to present its 2021 Spring Reading Series consisting of three new virtual productions showcasing writers who represent the rich cultural diversity of the evolving populations of Queens.

The Lark, an international play development laboratory dedicated to amplifying the voices of playwrights, is thrilled to announce May Adrales (Vietgone, Luce) as its new Artistic Director.

The Lark, an international play development laboratory dedicated to amplifying the voices of playwrights, announces that founder John Clinton Eisner is retiring after 27 years as Artistic Director, with the intent to hand over leadership to a new generation of theatrical talents.

New American Voices (NAV), Queens Theatre's new play development program, will present its 2021 Spring Reading Series consisting of three new virtual productions showcasing writers who represent the rich cultural diversity of the evolving populations of Queens.

John Clinton Eisner co-founded The Lark in 1994 as a community of theater professionals dedicated to the playwright’s vision. He has grown The Lark into an award winning “think tank for the theater,” with local, national and global reach. 

The 2020 Kesselring Prize for playwriting—a $25,000 award given annually to an outstanding playwright deserving of national recognition—is to be presented to Mona Mansour by The National Arts Club during a virtual ceremony on Thursday, February 25 at 6:00 PM.

Watch as Ridge chats with Broadway favorite Patrick Page, who will is currently appearing in Shakespeare Theatre Company's All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain (streaming now).