The complete playscript of 'Amm(i)gone' appears in our Summer 2025 issue. Here the author talks with a crucial mentor about the work's inspiration, production history, and meaning.

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That play was announced as part of the Arena Stage season last April with no pages, no treatment, and no title. Now, the story of Wallace “W” Tre and Free Dominic Mann, two gay Black men who meet ...

Arts organizations, including dozens of theatre companies, had NEA grants withdrawn or terminated late last week, and leadership resignations at the endowment bode ill.

The star of this season’s shipwrecked Avett Brothers musical reflects on the show's brief, brilliant voyage—and how its dark depths rescued his first love.

Orchestrator Doug Besterman (‘Death Becomes Her,’ ‘Boop!,’ ‘Smash’) and music director/arranger Marco Paguia (‘Buena Vista Social Club’) compare notes.

In one of the first few scenes of Lisa D’Amour’s wild new play Frozen Section, a nonbinary grocery clerk named Sage chats about their gender nonconformity with a customer who’s more concerned that she ...

As the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data shows we’re not out of the woods yet.

A stagehands' walkout at the Off-Broadway theatre is just one of several union efforts at nonprofit theatres nationwide.

Jonathan Spector’s play Eureka Day follows several contentious parents’ meetings about vaccine policies at a Berkeley private school. Originally staged in 2018, the play is currently running on ...

Who better to take the pulse of a changing industry than with the folks at the hub of the wheel: stage managers.

Kate Hamill and Rajiv Joseph tie for the top spot on a diverse list of dramatists and adaptors (*23 due to ties).