Latinx Playwrights Circle Announces Summer Jam Fellows
10 Latinx/é playwriting fellows will attend a week-long writers’ workshop guided by industry professionals on the business and craft of playwriting.
All Stories About Quiara Alegria Hudes
Women Are the Pillars of ‘In the Heights’
The new movie musical can be experienced as a virtual beauty shop, where a multigenerational matriarchy keeps the faith and carries the stories.
The Subtext: Quiara Alegría Hudes and the Path of the Healer
This month Brian talks to the playwright of ‘Water by the Spoonful’ and ‘In the Heights’ about her new memoir, ‘My Broken Language.’
No Playwright Is an Island
New memoirs by Quiara Alegría Hudes and David Adjmi describe their arduous journeys to find themselves, as well as the communities that shaped them.
A Triple Play in Houston
3 theatres partner to introduce Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Elliot trilogy to the town with the nation’s fourth largest Hispanic/Latinx population.
Plenaries of Plenty: Reporting From #TCG19 in Miami
From Edwidge Danticat to Wesley Morris, from Quiara Alegría Hudes to Lee Breuer, this year’s four tentpole gatherings were as rich and stimulating as the Florida city.
Letters for January 2019
In defense of post-show talkbacks, and in praise of a playwright’s candor.
Pushing the Envelope and Pulling Back
Readers respond to a provocative play about race and to a searching essay about theatrical heartbreak.
Small Change Adds Up
The dark tide we’re facing may break, though perhaps not before it’s managed to break things.
Worst-Case Scenarios: A New Canon of Military Plays
Psychological trauma is the subject of most plays about service members. Does this represent most veterans’ reality, or does it further complicate their reentry?
