The Public Theater News

The Second Stage Theater production of Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, Take Me Out played Second Stage's Hayes Theater. Learn more about the cast bringing the show to the stage!

Joe’s Pub will present the next installment of “Assorted Fruit” with host Justin Elizabeth – the new monthly, queer variety show from the people that brought you The Meeting* – on Sunday, March 13 at 9:30 PM.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with IAMA Theatre Company, will present HI, ARE YOU SINGLE?, written and performed by Ryan J. Haddad. Hilarious, vulnerable, and in-your-face provocative, Ryan explores the complicated world of dating from his unique perspective as a gay man living with cerebral palsy.

Ma-Yi Theater Company is presenting THE CHINESE LADY at The Public Theater. The Chinese Lady is written by Lloyd Suh and Directed by Ralph B. Peña. The Chinese Lady runs through Sunday, April 10, 2022.

Ma-Yi Theater Company is presenting THE CHINESE LADY, which officially opened last night, March 8, at The Public Theater. The Chinese Lady is written by Lloyd Suh and Directed by Ralph B. Peña.

L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, is honored to add Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau to its extensive collection of state-of-the-art audio theater, the largest library of its kind in the world.

Single tickets for HAMILTON will go on sale to the public on March 15, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. at peacecenter.org, in person at the Peace Center Box Office, or by calling 864.467.3000.

Musical Theatre Factory (MTF), a nonprofit arts organization with a radical, intentional and inclusive mission to help musical theatre artists develop and present new work in a collaborative atmosphere free from commercial pressure, announced Brisa Areli Muñoz today as the new Artistic Director. 

Pittsburgh Public Theater will welcome audiences back to live theater with the highly anticipated production of Agatha Christie’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at the O’Reilly Theater, April 13 – May 1, 2022.

The Playwrights Realm (Founding Artistic Director, Katherine Kovner; Producing Director, Roberta Pereira) presents Play on Words, a one-night live-streamed festival of short new plays that culminates an initiative in which donors get to have a hand in writing and creating work (March 28 at 7pm ET).

​​​​​​​Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden), The Earth Commons-Georgetown University's Institute for Environment and Sustainability, The Embassy of Sweden in Washington, DC, and The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics announce the launch of We Hear You-A Climate Archive, co-conceived by Caitlin Nasema Cassidy and Jacob Hirdwall.

Pittsburgh Public Theater will welcome audiences back to live theater with the highly anticipated production of Agatha Christie's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at the O'Reilly Theater, April 13 - May 1, 2022.

Tony Award-winning stage and film composer Jeanine Tesori will present a free Hermitage community program, “Musical Storytelling: A Conversation with Jeanine Tesori,” at the Hermitage Artist Retreat on Friday, March 25 at 6pm.

TheatreSquared (T2) Artistic Director Robert Ford and Executive Director Martin Miller today announced the 2022-23 TheatreSquared Season. Season packages are on sale today, with packages starting at $105 available by phone at (479) 777-7477 or online.

Ma-Yi Theater Company and The Public Theater will officially open the upcoming presentation of THE CHINESE LADY, written by Lloyd Suh and directed by Obie Award-winning Ralph  B. Peña, on Tuesday, March 8.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson’s sweeping drama Gem of the Ocean. This seminal classic will be directed by Artistic Director Tim Bond, a close friend of the late playwright and a leading interpreter of his work, making his TheatreWorks directorial debut with this play.

Audible has announced a special series of post-show talk-backs for the return engagement of The Public Theater's critically acclaimed Coal Country, written by Drama Desk winners Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen with original music written and performed by three-time Grammy Award winner Steve Earle.

The Kitchen Theatre Company will continue its 2021-2022 season with Lloyd Suh's The Chinese Lady, a poetic and subversively comedic tale that gives voice to our country's hidden history. Generously sponsored by WRFI, Tompkins Trust Company, CSP Management, OurBus, Don Spector and Stacia Zabusky and WRVO Public Media, The Chinese Lady will run from Tuesday, March 22 through Sunday, April 10 and will offer free childcare on Sunday, April 10 and Pay What You Want rush tickets throughout the duration of the run.

The World Premiere of i need space, a new digital series written, directed and created by Donja R. Love (Sugar In Our Wounds, one in two) and presented by The New Group Off Stage in association with John Ridley’s NŌ Studios and Frank Marshall will begin streaming March 8, 2022, exclusively on the new streaming platform, Broadstream. 

Parent Artist Advocacy League and Blackboard Plays announce the extension of their open call for submissions to The 2nd Annual Black Motherhood* and Parenting New Play Festival.