The first thing we did was pour a libation, but instead of water or rum, we poured names. It was morning in San Juan. I had come to TCG’s National Conference to lead a practice lab called “Writing as ...

For our guest columnist’s final column (for now), she reconnects with past students and asks teachers how they’re educating a new generation. One of the most rewarding parts of my career as a high ...

One warm afternoon in early June, the churchgoers at Montreal’s Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (a room built for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the 19th century) all turned in unison, as if ...

A human resources tangle among tech workers is at the heart of Geetha Reddy’s new comedy at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Geetha Reddy’s new play began with a problematic cancellation. If that sounds ...

In 2017, MILCK (Connie K. Lim) and AG (Adrianne Gonzalez)’s song “Quiet,” about MILCK’s journey of surviving domestic violence, became a protest anthem at the D.C. Women’s March. Inspired by that ...

On July 4, the Old American Company arrived in Hartford, Connecticut. At the time, the ensemble, which was one of the earliest professional theatre troupes in the U.S., was being tumultuously ...

In November 1985, American Theatre magazine’s second year of existence, Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice appeared in its pages. It was the first full play text the magazine had published. Below is a ...

An L.A. tribute to Harold Clurman, a transition for N.Y.’s Nathan Leventhal, and other updates. A true resident theatre actor, she will be greatly missed by all who collaborated with her or saw her ...

Victoria Lynne Barclay started to write plays when she lost her accent. “Believe it or not,” she told me one afternoon in late May, “my family don’t think I sound Scottish anymore.” Camping starts ...

The history of live performance on this continent has been about art, commerce, innovation, stereotyping, and the breaking of stereotypes—i.e., messy democracy in action. John Adams once predicted ...

How did they do it? How did women in the past come together across ideological differences to create a social movement? And in the 21st century, where do American women find public justice and real ...

In a conversation recorded at the TCG Conference in San Juan in June, writer Miranda Purcell is joined by Puerto Rican theatremakers Sylvia Bofill and Georgina Borri ...