Following is an excerpt from the program notes for Wonder, a new musical by Sarah Ruhl, Chad King, and Ian Axel adapted from R.J. Palacio’s popular book, now running at American Repertory Theater in ...

The author of a new musical based on a book about facial difference writes about how the show took its unique shape and gathered its like-minded team. The 95-year-old actor reflects on her rich and ...

To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward. A lot can happen in ...

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...

In November 2014, I traveled to the city of Tacloban on the island of Leyte for research on a multidisciplinary project to understand the impact of communication during Typhoon Haiyan (also known as ...

Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals. Patten has said that she decided to continue to play Jo to honor all the queer people who ...

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 ...

Jeremy O. Harris talks about the sexual politics of white supremacy, and about how he finds humor in horror (and vice versa). Jeremy O. Harris. (Photo by Andre D. Wagner for the New York Times) TONYA ...

On Monday, Aug. 18, 1919, the best stage show in New York wasn’t on Broadway. It was raining in the city, and there was a subway strike. Yet 500 standees had crowded into the auditorium at the ...

As theatres have reemerged from pandemic closure in the past season, and audiences are returning, though in still lower numbers than before, there’s plenty of drama onstage. But behind the scenes ...

Douglas Turner Ward was a giant in the American theatre, but he was also my director, my mentor, my friend. In 1966, he wrote an editorial in The New York Times, titled “American Theater, for Whites ...

The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned. The Sundance Theatre Program never had a proper interment or ...