Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us ...

In 2016 I was toast. My last two outings on Broadway had taken a toll. Though I’d been given the bucket-list gift of appearing in two of my all-time favorite plays, the power games and rancorous ...

In the singing land that is the musical theatre, orchestrators are too unsung. These showbiz pros do much to give a musical a distinctive sound and feel, and yet—the Tony Award for orchestrators ...

Following are edited excerpts from Garrett Eisler’s new book, Ben Hecht’s Theatre of Jewish Protest, a history and anthology of dramatic writings about the Holocaust by the playwright and screenwriter ...

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 ...

In December 1959, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the striking concrete home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), welcomed its first audience. But its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, never saw a performance ...

In summer 2023, theatres around the country were still reeling in the aftermath of the Covid shutdowns of the previous few years. When New York City’s Public Theater laid off nearly 20 percent of its ...

Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us ...

Jordan Harrison is a playwright, no doubt, but I also think of him as a kind of archivist of human behavior. I don’t mean that his plays are usually, or only, set in earlier eras; even when they have ...

Joseph Medeiros crouches on the whitewashed floor of Theaterlab, a small performing arts space in Manhattan’s Garment District, gesturing at a weathered leather briefcase. “In the next pocket,” he ...

From the Editor Contributors From the Executive Office Front and Center: Alliance Theatre’s The Preacher’s Wife, discounts for young audiences, Black Out nights, Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of ...

As productions became more technically complex over the 20th century, stage managers took on more responsibility for calling a larger number of cues and managing teams of workers. Stage managers once ...