‘Clyde’s’ Is Most-Produced Play, and Lynn Nottage Most-Produced Playwright, of 2022-23 Season
A mix of familiar and new titles, of challenge and comfort, characterizes this year’s lists, the first this magazine has done since 2019.
Category Archives: Season Preview 2022-23: Things Are Different
Things Are Different
Over the past two years of pandemic and protest, theatres have faced unprecedented challenges and changes, and American Theatre hasn’t just reported and reflected on these changes—we’ve changed too. We are now a full-time theatre website (and a website only for the time being), and the listings that used to appear in the back of our print magazine now live here. And though we did a sort of season preview last year, the field was still skittish and not at full tilt. This year…is different. A large enough plurality of TCG Member Theatres have reported programming that we are reviving our beloved Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights list; you can tune in for a live announcement of those lists on Friday, Sept. 23, at 1 p.m. ET.
But as you’ll see in the season preview content we roll out this week, including an in-depth look at the pivotal future of Long Wharf Theatre, not everything is business as usual, and that’s probably for the best. We won’t be able to reckon with all the changes theatres have been asked to make and/or have made in the past few years in this one package of stories, but I think you’ll be able to glimpse an arresting snapshot of the U.S. theatre industry as it stands in the fall of 2022, poised on the verge of more wrenching change and its oft-disguised twin, opportunity.
—Rob Weinert-Kendt, Editor-in-Chief
Robert O’Hara Puts Nothing on a Pedestal, Least of All the Canon
This busy writer-director, known for new works, is now staging ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at the Public, but it’s more a case of continuing a legacy of Black iconoclasm than a new career phase.
Arizona’s Stray Cat Asks: Can We Be the Change We Want to See?
How a small theatre in Phoenix, now embarking on an all-BIPOC season, is challenging its local colleagues to do better.
Real Talk: Can Broadway Broaden Its Access and Impact?
Broadway producers Ron Simons and Hunter Arnold talk about the changes they’ve seen (and been a part of) in their field, and point to the changes that are still needed.
A Capital Season
Theatre folks from Alaska to Ohio to Misssissippi tell us where they’re seeing the most change and what they’d like to see on a stage in the coming season.
Long Wharf Takes the Off-Ramp to a New Future
What does it mean for a venerable 57-year-old regional theatre to become itinerant? The answer matters beyond New Haven.
A More Intentional Era for American Regional Theatre
The itinerant experiment at Long Wharf Theatre can be a model for other theatres that have lost connection with their communities.
Jennifer Kidwell Knows What Time It Is
The multidisciplinary Philly artist can’t be pinned down, but she is never less than fiercely present. Her next collaborative piece: Tall Order’s ‘Those With 2 Clocks’ at the Wilma.
