American Theatre magazine

15/08/2025

Anne Bogart pays tribute to the late visionary theatre and opera director Robert Wilson, with reflections on how his beautiful, internally cohesive dreamscapes expanded her concept of what theatre can do.

A colleague recalls how the director’s beautiful, internally cohesive dreamscapes expanded her concept of what theatre can do.

15/08/2025

After flooding in Wauwatosa caused more than $5 million damage to sets, props and other equipment, the Rep has a plan for rebuilding.

15/08/2025

This latest roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions from August includes National Alliance for Musical Theatre grant recipients, PlayGround company members, and Colorado’s Henry Awards.

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

15/08/2025

His summer conferences gave budding playwrights a chance to try out new works, many of which went on to success in New York.

14/08/2025

Teachers: Any back-to-school tips for new educators or those in a new classroom?

14/08/2025

Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Inc.’s new immersive play THE SIT-IN EXPERIENCE puts audience members in the thick of “Ax Handle Sunday,” a historical Jacksonville event. J.R. Pierce reports for our summer 2025 issue.

A new immersive performance at Stage Aurora Theatrical Company puts audience members in the thick of a historical Jacksonville event.

14/08/2025

Adam Wassilchalk reports from the 2025 Williamstown Theatre Festival, highlighting its endeavors with new creative director Jeremy O. Harris, its new Annex space, and the community amongst festivalgoers.

This year’s gathering in the Berkshires took big swings with mixed results, but its greatest successes may have been in the buzz and chatter it created among festivalgoers.

13/08/2025

Bond Street Theatre, which takes theatre into refugee camps and prisons overseas, has had programs cancelled—but they’re regrouping, fundraising, and even bringing some of their work home.

13/08/2025

For our summer 2025 issue, Rad Pereira explores anti-colonialist theatre organizations and practices in their home country of Brazil—and what American theatre systems can learn from them.

Lessons from the Global South on fugitivity and world-making in the face of empire.

13/08/2025

"As theatre companies begin to plan seasons that are further out, it’s also important to expand or challenge the idea of parity. As a young director at the town hall pointed out, striving for parity often implies striving for 50 percent white women, 50 percent women of color, which centers whiteness. A 50/50 split may not accurately represent a community, and, as actor Christine Bruno flagged, it’s essential to think intersectionally. Theatres should take care to not pigeonhole or silo their playwrights, dropping them into specific demographic groups. To me, it becomes less of an issue of just gender and racial parity, and more a question of equity, because to achieve parity you must create and extend opportunities where they have been historically denied." - Emily Chackerian

|Emily ChackerianIs New York theatre backsliding into a less equitable industry? Emily Chackerian writes about the very real worry triggered by recent season announcements that seemed to elide female playwrights—and the solution-minded responses the community offered at a recent town hall.