Will Arbery News

THE TYPIST by multiple award-winning playwright Shem Bitterman will make its world premiere next year. 'The Typist” will be presented at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Hollywood,  January  27 through March 9, 2026.

Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood program has announced ten new members for its 2025–2026 season. The OBIE Award-winning collective will welcome Davis Alianiello, Messiah Cristine, Avery Deutsch, Xiaoyan Kang, Carolyn Kettig, Gloria Majule, Max Mooney, Jordan Ramirez Puckett, Eliya Smith, and Rosa Thomas.

The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company, in association with Karakuva Productions, will present a stage reading of Roar of the Grain, a new play by Satu inspired by true events during the Winter War between Finland and the USSR.

Clubbed Thumb's 2025 Gala will honor Theatre World Award winner Crystal Finn, Drama Desk Award winner for Best Ensemble Performance Susannah Flood, and Tony Award and Obie Award winner Miriam Silverman. Learn more!

Colt Coeur has announced the 2025–26 Resident Artists for its CoCo Residency Program and will celebrate its 15th Anniversary Benefit Bash on October 26 at the Wythe Hotel.

Concord Theatricals has announced the six winning plays of the 2025 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, which will be published by Samuel French in the 50th Off Off Broadway Festival Plays anthology. The winning playwrights were selected from over 750 submissions worldwide.

The 24 Hour Plays revealed this year's company for The 24 Hour Plays Nationals in NYC. Learn more about the events taking place in July and see how to attend!

Chicago’s First Floor Theater has released production images of their Chicago Premiere production, EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING, written by Will Arbery and running May 22 - June 14, 2025 at The Den Theatre's Bookspan stage, 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets ($10 - $35) on sale now. Check out photos of the production.

The Tank will present YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS UKRAINE @THE TANK, the first New York production of two plays from Young Playwrights Ukraine. Learn more here and see how to attend!

Will Arbery's HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING will be presented at Wagner College, May 1, 2, 3 at 7:30PM and May 3, 4 at 2:00PM. All performances will be in Wagner College Theatre's Stage One.

The Tank 2025 Gala All Hands On Deck will honor Tank Board Member and artist Josh Luxenberg and Tank artist Julian Shapiro-Barnum. Learn more and see how to attend!

Actors Theatre of Indiana has announced the continued expansion of its LAB Series with the second annual DIY PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP. Registrants will join accomplished playwright, educator, and new works expert Andrew Kramer as he provides writing prompts, guidance, and inspiration.

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.

Clubbed Thumb will present a one-week extension for the return engagement of Deep Blue Sound, written by Abe Koogler and directed by Arin Arbus. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Playwrights Horizons has announced Noah Silva as the organization's new General Manager, with Carol Fishman departing the role after 17 impactful years.

Chicago’s First Floor Theater has revealed the cast for the Chicago Premiere production of EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING, written by Will Arbery. Learn more and see how to attend.

A smash hit at Rogue Machine already, many performances are already sold out.  Evanston Salt Costs Climbing is a strange, satirical, darkly funny meditation on loss, anxiety, and depression.  Among other things, it touches on our universal creeping feeling of dread, the vastness of the problems facing humanity such as climate change and environmental devastation, our struggle with our own bitter destructive natures, our fear of closeness and our desperate need for it.

Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery confronts humanity’s darkest fears with humor, warmth, and the fortitude of municipal public servants in this play about climate and change.

Tony Award-nominated and Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb has announced additional casting for Deep Blue Sound, written by Abe Koogler (Staff Meal) and directed by Arin Arbus (Waiting For Godot).

 Mitch and Murray Productions will present the Western Canadian premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery beginning next month. Learn more here!