Offscript: Live! It’s Not Lonely at the Top
Live at the Lark, American Theatre editors announced the season’s top plays and playwrights, and spoke to two of them, Lucas Hnath and Karen Zacarías.
All Stories About Top 10 Most-Produced Plays
Since 1994, American Theatre has used the season listings for TCG Member Theatres to calculate our Top 10 Most-Produced Play list. And since 2014, we’ve used those same metrics to count the Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights in America.
Curious? You can find all of those lists here!
This Year’s Gender & Period Count: The Best Numbers Yet
The momentum behind gender parity in the American theatre seems unmistakable, with 30 percent of all plays and 40 percent of new ones written by women.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2018-19 Season
‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ by Lucas Hnath, which premiered almost simultaneously at South Coast Rep and on Broadway, will be the most-produced play in America this season.
The Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2018-19 Season
Lucas Hnath is the most-produced playwright in America, with the always prolific (and popular) Lauren Gunderson close behind.
The Gender & Period Count: The More Things Change…
Once again, new plays far outnumber revivals and classics—and they’re the only sector in which the playwriting gender gap is narrowing.
The Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2017-18 Season
In her third year on this list, ‘I and You’ playwright Lauren Gunderson has shot to the top spot.
The Top 10 Most-Produced Plays of the 2017-18 Season
This year’s top play is ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Lee Hall, based on the Oscar-winning film.
Offscript: Top 10 and Puppet Sex with Rob Askins
In this week’s episode, we welcome Robert Askins, author of “Hand to God,” aka the most-produced play in America! Plus, we invite some critics to discuss the play and whether it deserves to be on top.
The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2016-17 Season
Robert Askins’s profane yet profound ‘Hand to God’ is the No. 1 play of the season.
The Top 20* Most-Produced Playwrights of the 2016-17 Season
August Wilson is the No. 1 playwright in America this season, but San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson isn’t far behind.