This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Recently Theatre Talk has been discussing political plays, in particular the inability of contemporary political plays--and politically minded playwrights--to ...

Playwrights and professors spoke about their portrayals of femininity of Greek characters in plays about war and violence. The event was presented in conjunction with Doheny Library’s new exhibition ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In addition to Broadway crowd-pleasers, the actor deftly navigated classics, experimental theater and new works by major contemporary playwrights. James Earl Jones in the 1982 ...

Tickets are now available for Boise Contemporary Theater’s (BCT) Third Annual BIPOC Playwrights Festival August 21-25, 2023, through Ticketmaster. Thursday’s events will be held at the Boise State ...

Lauren Gunderson, recognized as the most produced contemporary playwright in America four of the last five years, including 2025, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Lauren Gunderson is a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), returning the question of abortion to the individual states, has provoked an obvious political ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "After our inaugural AAPI Playwright Festival sold out last summer, we knew ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Harold Pinter, perhaps Britain's greatest modern playwright and the winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, presented his Nobel lecture two weeks ago.

The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the Nobel literature prize to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, whose plays are among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in Europe. The ...