The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2023-24 Season
Dramas and comedies with a political edge top this year’s list (*actually 12 due to ties).
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Dramas and comedies with a political edge top this year’s list (*actually 12 due to ties).
Lynn Nottage again tops the list, followed closely by a mix of dramatists, librettists, and adapters.
The offerings that are emerging from the midst of contraction and crisis show how theatres can balance values and budgets.
Two new books consider the possibilities and limits of documentary theatre in a polarized nation.
Two books come not to bury the Bard but to bring his writing down to the common ground we share.
Priscilla Gilman’s memoir portrays her father, Richard Gilman, as a passionate, difficult figure who bequeathed her life lessons, many unwittingly.
Patti Hartigan’s excellent new biography gives us a rich portrait of the playwright’s life and art, and a measure of his significance.
A reporter and critic who knew Wilson nearly from the start of his playwriting peak, she wrote the biography she wanted to see.
A forgotten chapter of mid-20th-century theatre history is about to be restored, as ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ is restaged in Seattle and Brooklyn.
Lorraine Hansberry’s long-awaited sophomore effort was greeted coolly, even confusedly, in 1964, but ambivalence—about art, activism, and their fraught intersection—has always been in the play’s DNA.