Letters: Mary Tyrone’s Ghost, Kennedy Center Agonistes
An appreciation for our George C. White tribute, and salutes to a worker who left a Trump-dominated cultural institution on principle.
All Stories About Steven Dietz
A New-Play Fest Stands Alone
The Contemporary American Theater Festival is now the only U.S. gathering of its kind that fully stages all its offerings—and that matters more now.
Why New Plays Now? A Case for Supporting the Unimaginable
One of the nation’s most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work.
2 Plays on 2 Stories of the Same House, at 2 Charlotte Theatres
How Children’s Theatre and Actor’s Theatre joined to commission interlocking plays from Steven Dietz for their various audiences.
Steven Dietz to Leave Full-Time Faculty Position at UT Austin
The playwright and director will continue to teach classes on a part-time basis.
Qui Nguyen Wins 2015 Steinberg Award for ‘Vietgone’
A play based on his parents’ history has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s annual new play prize.
Developed to Death
Our writers should be grappling with the limits of production, not of development.
