Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts).

On this special edition, we announce the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2026-27 season, and are joined in conversation by the writers of the year’s two most-produced plays, Kimberly Belflower, whose John Proctor Is the Villain will get 20 stagings, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Purpose will receive 14. We talk about each play’s unique gestation and the encouraging resurgence of ensemble casts. There is also a not-to-be-missed digression into the history of Cabbage Patch Dolls (the subject of Belflower’s next play, Born in the Dirt at Lincoln Center Theater next March).

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