Lynn Nottage returns to the top of this list, which she dominated last year as well, after popping on and off the list since 2016. She earns the top spot on the strength not only of Clyde’s, but a ...

NEW YORK CITY: The Farm Theater, which develops early-career artists through its College Collaboration Project, and Stage Partners, an independent play publisher dedicated to new plays, have announced ...

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. The cohort includes Broadway performers, award-winning playwrights, and renowned musical artists. Together they make up the most ...

PHILADELPHIA: PlayPenn has announced its 2026 New Play Development Conference, with the title “Democracy in Action,” running July 17-August 2 in Philadelphia and New York City. It will feature new ...

We are just months away from Oct. 5, 2026, which would have been Václav Havel’s 90th birthday. Next month, as part of the 10th annual Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, we will ...

The inaugural All. Together. Now. festival at UNC-Chapel Hill, set for February 2027, will feature performances, community events, and conversations across campus and downtown Chapel Hill. CHAPEL HILL ...

In defiance of early 2026’s harrowing ICE/CBP occupation, Mixed Blood Theatre commissioned theatre artists to process and document the moment. When an intense surge in militarized ICE and CBP raids ...

Each year the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize gives a $25,000 prize (and a signed Willem de Kooning print) to a woman+ playwright for an outstanding English-language play. It has typically alternated ...

*In fact there will actually be 10 productions of Dial M for Murder in the coming season, but Norfolk’s Virginia Stage Company will use Knott’s original script rather than the Hatcher adaptation. And ...

A former copywriter for the D.C. organization reflects on the tenuous position of arts workers under the Trump administration. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has always been a part ...

The playwright talks about her great new feminist play. Plus: the clever comedy of Abby Wambaugh’s ‘The First 3 Minutes of 17 Show,’ Big Bang readings, and more. A lot of theatre artists say they ...

This list was culled from 1,446 productions at 293 TCG member theatres, plus 156 productions at non-member and commercial theatres. As always, we did not tally productions authored by Shakespeare, of ...