This Month in Theatre History
May highlights include a major group’s founding, a Pulitzer winner’s birthday, and Arthur Miller juvenilia.
Category Archives: Theatre History
This Month in Theatre History
April highlights include 19th-century queer theatre history, the Pulitzer changing the rules, and a leading Chicago theatre company finding their home.
This Month in Theatre History
Our March edition highlights new-play milestones from 1916 through 2016.
This Month in Theatre History
This edition includes milestones related to Langston Hughes, Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop, Tennessee Williams, and Lucas Hnath.
This Month in Theatre History
This edition features the birth and death of playwrights and major openings.
This Month in Theatre History
Grand openings for 2 theatres in 1900, milestones for ’Black Nativity’ and Jane Chambers, and more.
How to Survive a Dictatorship, the Theatre Artist’s Way
Stories of resistance from perseverant 20th century theatremakers around the world, and how they walk with us today.
This Month in Theatre History
A notable 1800s female playwright is born, a late 1700s actor’s skull plays Yorick, and more.
This Month in Theatre History
A thread of protest, censorship, and direct action runs through this month’s entries.
This Month in Theatre History
The birth of the NEA and NEH, the original productions of an American classic by Arthur Miller and a flop by Tennessee Williams, and more.
