Playwright Matthew López made history by becoming the first Latino to win the Tony Award for best play. On stage at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday night, López paid tribute to “three queer men” ...

A new interactive theatrical production, "The Catastrophist," follows the story of a scientist thrilled by discovery and pained by loss. It was written by playwright Lauren Gunderson about her husband ...

Currently enjoying an extended run at Studio Theatre, “The Mother Play,” (also known as “The Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions,” or more simply, “Mother Play”) is a 90-minute powerful and poignant ...

Every year, I make it a tradition to watch “A Christmas Carol” in some form. I’ve seen nearly every type of Scrooge you can ...

Tom Stoppard, winner of the prize for Best Play for "Leopoldstadt," holds his Tony Award in the press room in 2023. He died Saturday at the age of 88. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Nov. 29 (UPI) ...

Scant pay and no health insurance, not to mention writer’s block and the constant search for an audience — all just part of the real-life drama for a playwright trying to make it in America today.

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So you want to be a playwright? Perhaps you’re inspired by the classics (Shakespeare! Chekhov!), or the great plays of today (Sondheim! Parks! Kushner!), or you have a budding idea that just needs to ...

NEW YORK — Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," ''Barefoot in the Park" and his "Brighton Beach" trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died ...

Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986. This ...