Playwrights Foundation, the West Coast’s premier launchpad for exceptional new plays and playwrights, will honor Tony and Pulitzer Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M. Butterfly ...

The People's Theatre has seleced three exceptional playwrights for its 2025 Playwrights Unit: Rudy Bamenga, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, and Victoria Lino. Now in its second year since the program's relaunch, ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including ” ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys,” ”The Road to Mecca,” “Boesman and Lena,” ”A Lesson From Aloes,” died on Saturday. He was 92. While a ...

Some of the finest playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries left us in 2025. Four monumental talents — Richard Foreman, Athol Fugard, William Finn and Tom Stoppard — left their mark not just on ...

Applications are now available for Ensemble Theatre Company’s 2025 Young Playwrights Festival. Designed for aspiring playwrights, ages 14-19, the tuition-free program is a cornerstone of ETC’s ...

When Michaela O’Harra founded New Dramatists in 1949, her dream was to create a space where young writers could develop their work, share ideas, and grow as artists. “She envisioned a place that would ...

Cleage is known for her transformative plays centering on Black women's experiences. Pearl Cleage, an acclaimed writer known for her emphasis on Black feminist ideology, now reigns as a 2025 recipient ...

The Lucille Lortel Awards, the New York theater award that exclusively honors off-Broadway, have announced Special Award recipients for 2025. Playwright Alice Childress (1916-1994) will be ...