Susan Smith News

Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full cast for Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare. Directed by Blanche McIntyre, Poor Clare opens at Orange Tree Theatre next month.

Second Stage Theater has just announced five productions for the Company’s upcoming 47th Season, which will include productions of Marjorie Prime, Becky Shaw, Meet the Cartozians, Meat Suit, and. he Receptionist. We have all of the details here!

Playwrights Foundation will honor Tony and Pulitzer Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang with the 2025 Impact Award in recognition of his theatrical achievements and profound influence on current and rising generations of writers.

Yale Repertory Theatre has revealed its 2025–26 season of five productions. The season opens with the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk, a play with music, adapted by Hurston from her own short story in 1935. Learn more!

As part of the 62nd season, the Provincetown Theater will produce the 5th annual 4-Star Solo Show Festival throughout the month of June at their playhouse at 238 Bradford Street in Provincetown, MA.

Playwrights Foundation will present a public reading of Driving the Girls, a new play by Resident Playwright Cat Brooks on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Orange Tree Theatre has announced that Arsema Thomas, who will make her stage debut, and Freddy Carter will star in Chiara Atik’s Poor Clare. Learn more here!

The Department of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara will present Dance Nation by Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron, a funny and deeply moving play that captures the raw ambition and emotional complexity of adolescence.

This spring, Soulpepper Theatre in partnership with Luminato Festival will present the Toronto premiere of the newest offering from Governor General’s Award-winning playwright, Hannah Moscovitch, RED LIKE FRUIT.

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. 

Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Zora Howard’s groundbreaking, laugh-out-loud new drama, BUST, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, opens tonight. Check out photos from the production. Check out photos and video from the production.

The National Theatre has announced that Director and Choreographer Miranda Cromwell; author, academic, and dramaturg Dr Sophie Duncan; and Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage have been appointed as Artistic Associates.

Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast's premier launchpad for new plays and playwrights, will release the on-demand recording of the public reading of The Justice is Just Asleep, a new play by Resident Playwright Ruben Grijalva, commissioned by San Francisco Playhouse, from April 14-20, 2025.

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Birmingham Rep have announced cast and creatives for their upcoming co-production of Marriage Material which runs at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Birmingham Rep.

Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the line-up for the Spring 2025 First Light Festival. Since 1998, the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project has developed over 300 plays that challenge and broaden the view of science in the popular imagination. 

Geva Theatre has announced its upcoming 2025/26 season. The One Geva subscription offers a full season of exciting work across our two theatres – now with five shows in the Wilson and two shows in the Fielding!

Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb will present the complete line-up for the 28th SUMMERWORKS festival of new plays.

Signature Theatre will host The Luminary Awards, a Signature Theatre Gala Celebration, next month. The event will honor Signature Theatre Resident Playwrights Dominique Morisseau and Sarah Ruhl.

Pennsylvania history will come to life in The Return of Benjamin Lay by playwright, screenwriter and poet Naomi Wallace and University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, Marcus Rediker.

Florida Studio Theatre has announced the lineup for its 2025 Burdick New Play Festival, featuring three staged readings of new works by contemporary American playwrights.