What It Means to Be a Playwright Right Now
This disorienting global moment is not an intermission—it’s the main drama itself.
All Stories About Playwriting
Viral Epiphanies: Teaching Writing in the Age of COVID-19
Where will we find the tools to forge a new way of learning and making theatre? They may already be in our hands.
Featured Contributors, January/February 2020
A look at a new kind of graduate training, and at one versatile artist who’s taken the plunge.
Dramatists Guild Reveals New Playwriting Initiative
The new ‘End of Play’ program aims to encourage playwrights to create new works in collaboration with communities in the month of March.
What Can Be Taught, What Must Be Learned
As the walls among mediums begin to tumble, so too the boundaries separating training programs.
MFA or the Highway?
7 playwrights who’ve honed their craft without the coveted degree tell how their roads diverged.
A B-Boy at Yale
Rudi Goblen, break-dancing champ turned playwright, enters a school that has done its own share of learning.
What Is the Question?
Watching and helping John Guare build his plays inspired his erstwhile assistant to do the same.
Julia Jarcho Appointed Head of MFA Playwriting at Brown
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Adrienne Kennedy: A Liberating Beacon
Colleagues and former students of the playwright share how she helped shape their lives and work.