The Shows That Reloaded the Canon for the 21st Century
To compile this list of the new millennium’s influential plays and musicals, we turned to industry workers, leaders, and observers to come up with 50 that pushed theatre forward.
All Stories About Will Arbery
High Ambition, Low Stakes: How Clubbed Thumb Cultivates Strange New Theatre
With this year’s Summerworks festival, the New York City company reaffirms its commitment to new voices in a variety of registers.
Online This Week: Free Willy, a 12-Hour Cabaret, American Fascism
This is an especially rich week, whether you’re craving meaty drama, durational performance, or livestream experimentation.
Me Here, You There: What Happens Between Us in the Dark
What are we doing in the theatre? The clues are in what our art is made of: bodies, words, and a third thing that is neither and both of them.
Will Arbery Receives 2020 Whiting Award for Drama
The ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ playwright will be awarded $50,000.
The Subtext: Will Arbery’s Guilt Traps
The playwright of ‘Plano’ and ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ talks about Dallas theatre, existential crisis, and the difference between love and empathy.
Will Arbery’s ‘Heroes’: Pain and Love in the Backyard
A conversation with the writer of ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ about conversativism, Catholicism, and lingering in discomfort.
Playwright Horizons to Produce Final Michael Friedman Musical
Next season also includes world premieres by Jaclyn Backhaus and Jeremy O. Harris.
