2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards Winners Revealed
by Stephi Wild - Mar 12, 2026
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust announced the names of the two outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights who will be celebrated with 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards.
ShowTown Theatricals Reveals New General Management Hires
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 20, 2025
ShowTown Theatricals has announced four new hires within its New York general management office: General Managers Megan Curren and Amanda Feldman and Associate General Managers Miguel Ortiz and Siani Woods.
Page 73 Unveils 12 Semifinalists For Its 2026 Playwriting Fellowship
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2025
Page 73 has announced 12 semifinalists for the 2026 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship: Benjamin Benne, Kate Cortesi, Alexa Derman, Ryan Drake, JuCoby Johnson, Aditya Joshi, Chad Kaydo, Adin Lenahan, Dhari Noel, Abigail C. Onwunali, Anike Sonuga, and Mallory Jane Weiss.
Peacedale Global Arts Names Zora Howard As The Inaugural Arthur Kopit Fellow
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 16, 2025
Peacedale Global Arts is thrilled to announce playwright Zora Howard has been selected as the inaugural Arthur Kopit Fellow. The Arthur Kopit Fellowship is a year-long residency that includes a cash prize of $10,000, a seat in Peacedale Global Arts' New Work, NY Generative Workshop program with international artists, and additional artistic support.
SPANISH STEW Comes to New Conservatory Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - Sep 5, 2025
New Conservatory Theatre Center will serve up the next bowl of bold and fresh queer theatre with the World Premiere of Marga Gomez’s flavor-packed, auto-biographical treat, Spanish Stew, directed by Richard A. Mosqueda.
Arkansas Repertory Theatre Adds Artists for ME AND THE DEVIL
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2025
Tickets are on sale now for the first production of The Rep’s 2025 SummerStage season, ME AND THE DEVIL The play with music is written and directed by The Rep’s new Artistic Director, Little Rock-native and Broadway director, Steve H. Broadnax III.
Cast Set For BUST at the Goodman Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Mar 19, 2025
The cast has been set for Pulitzer Prize finalist playwright Zora Howard's new drama, BUST, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Learn more about the upcoming show here!
Preview: EAT THE DOCUMENT Premiere Kicks Off PROTOTYPE Festival 2025 Lasting through January 19
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 8, 2025
New York’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival—produced by Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, which has been showcasing visionary, nontraditional opera-theatre and music-theatre pieces since 2013—kicked off its 2025 edition on January 9 followed by BLACK LODGE/BARDO, IN A GROVE, POSITIVE VIBRATION NATION, AROOJ AFTAB: NIGHT REIGN, ART BATH, through January 19.
How Common Are Autobiographical Plays and Musicals?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Oct 6, 2024
This time, the reader question was: With Yellow Face on Broadway, have there been other semi-autobiographical shows on Broadway where the writer made themself a character?
Kitty Coen Shares Spellbinding New Debut LP 'Hellcat'
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 30, 2024
Nashville-based alternative pop/rock artist Kitty Coen shares her long-awaited, spellbinding debut album, HELLCAT out everywhere now with the latest track 'center of the sun' where Coen learns to trust herself. Alongside the release, Coen will also embark on a summer tour across the East Coast with alt-rock Americana musician Slow Funeral. It begins on June 13 in Greenville, SC with tickets on sale now.
Cast Set For NATIVE SON at Lifeline Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Mar 29, 2024
Casting has been announced for Chicagoan Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Richard Wright’s powerful introspection on race and justice like never before. Native Son runs at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave. in Rogers Park, from May 10 – June 30, 2024.