If you’ve been going to the theatre lately, you’ve seen plenty of what I’ve started to think of as “piñata plays.” In this sort of story, a big family gets together and there are a lot of secrets. For ...

The recipients of the 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards (the “Mimi” Awards), presented by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, are Christopher Chen and Zora Howard. The $100,000 award is ...

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (CAATA) has created a new national, annual award for playwrights: The Godfather Prize for Playwriting. Each year, the award will honor one Asian ...

The Playwrights' Center, the Twin Cities' long-running incubator for new plays, has told supporters it is in a “financial crisis” driven by a mix of funding losses and shifting regulations. In a blunt ...

The venerated arts organization has been in the Twin Cities for more than 50 years. The Playwrights' Center, a revered arts institution that has called the Twin Cities home for more than half a ...

Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s love for theater started early. As a child, her father, R.N. Sandberg, a playwright and theater professor, took her to one of his classes at Cornish College of the ...

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...

The historic Cherry Lane Theatre has partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker (BFA '03) to launch the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective. This nine-month developmental program offers a small ...

After a few false starts trying to dive into the play, I found a deeply satisfying solution: I retyped the play in its entirety: not just reading it passively and taking notes, but actually writing ...

Playwright Justin Tanner, author of “Pot Mom,” “Little Theatre” and “Voice Lessons,” is one of the signal voices of L.A.’s wild and free intimate theater scene. He has not only written what might be ...