Both in content and form, documentary theatre in the U.S. has always been at theatre's cutting edge.

The complete script of Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust appears in our Spring 2024 issue. The play, about a lonely, full-grown man with an imaginary friend in a small town outside Rochester, N.Y., had its ...

Michael was more than a scholar. He was a storyteller, a keeper of history, a community builder, and, for many of us, a beacon of global theatre light. He showed us what it means to live a life ...

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking on the phone with Ann Joseph-Douglas, the director of education at Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis. Since 2021, Joseph-Douglas has been ...

At a convening earlier this year hosted by Lincoln Center Theater and the New York City Department of Education, tools and resources were offered for multilingual educators and learners.

In an Argentine prison cell, political prisoner Valentin forges a relationship with queer, movie-loving Molina, who escapes reality by retelling film classics as their leading ladies. Poignant, funny, ...

That’s (Political) Entertainment A playwright considers the challenges and rewards of writing for the moment.

The short-term workarounds for this ongoing crisis have been simple but deeply problematic: renting sets and costumes, or hiring an outside company to do the work at an even higher cost, or hiring ...

How disabled performing artists are challenging ableism, building access, and imagining new worlds.

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 ...

Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals.

Since 2000, thousands of productions of 'The Laramie Project' have shared Matthew Shepard's story with communities around the world.