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The complete playscript of 'Amm(i)gone' appears in our Summer 2025 issue. Here the author talks with a crucial mentor about the work's inspiration, production history, and meaning.
People to Watch: Kimie Nishikawa The New York-based scenic designer discusses her process, design partners, and theatre memories for our Summer 2025 issue.
This Month in Theatre History The birth of two theatre giants, a theatre company tenure cut short by fire, and the establishing of a Wisconsin staple.
The venerable international festival's 79th iteration lays out the welcome mat for first-time performers and audiences, and puts its first non-European language, Arabic, in the spotlight.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s tap dancing musical comedy comes to life on stage! Packed with Irving Berlin’s greatest hits including, “Cheek to Cheek,” “Top Hat,” “Let’s Face the Music & Dance,” ...
Please Do Not Touch the Indians Traditional Native storytelling is infused into nonlinear theatre, with characters that move freely between past and present, offering perspectives of the same reality ...
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Jaja’s African Hair Braiding A joyous and timely tale about sisterhood and community set on a sweltering summer day in a Harlem hair-braiding shop. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving ...
The Inheritance, Part 1 & 2 An epic and touching journey through generations of gay America. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please join ...
Part ritual and part theatrical experience, What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a fiercely innovative play that sets out to disrupt the pervasiveness of anti-blackness and rejoice in the resilience ...
Welcome Home, or Ten Tiny Snapshots of WP Welcome Home is an audio tour that invites up to four audience members at a time to explore what makes them feel at home in our theatre space on the Upper ...
Unique and quirky, this is a story about what to do during a pandemic…Quarantine? Plan for the future? Kill your lover’s husband? Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins ...