American Theatre magazine

08/10/2025

SAVE THE DATE: Join Theatre Communications Group on Saturday, Oct. 25 for "Preludes, Interludes, and Epilogues" to celebrate the release of "The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley" at The Second Floor in Chicago. Hosted by McCauley's daughter, composer Jessie Montgomery, enjoy an evening of music, readings, and remembrance. Jessie and fellow musicians will perform original compositions from McCauley's plays as a part of the event. Copies of the book will be for sale. Registration link to come.

08/10/2025

A thread of protest, censorship, and direct action runs through this month’s entries, including El Teatro Campesino’s founding amidst the Delano Grape Strike, the inaugural Women’s One World Festival, and more.

A thread of protest, censorship, and direct action runs through this month’s entries.

08/10/2025

The Broadway League and unions representing actors, stage managers and musicians are trying to negotiate new contracts, but workers are increasingly frustrated.

08/10/2025

Great Performances is bringing Shakespeare in the Park to your home! We’re excited to announce The Public Theater's star-studded Twelfth Night will be premiering Friday, November 14 at 9/8c on PBS and the PBS app.

Photo: Joan Marcus

07/10/2025

Join Theatre Communications Group and The Center for Fiction on Wednesday, October 8 for an evening with award-winning playwright, librettist, and author, David Henry Hwang, in partnership to celebrate the highly anticipated release of Yellow Face, the Broadway Edition.

In this satire-comedy, an Asian American playwright protests yellowface casting in the blockbuster musical Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This laugh-out-loud, semi-autobiographical work uses Hwang’s lived experience to highlight the complexities of race, while urging the audience to challenge their blind spots. Hwang will be joined in conversation by award-winning playwright, director, actor, and educator James Ijames for a riveting discussion about the art of satire. Register for the event at link below!

Tony Award-winning playwright, librettist, and author, David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish), joins us to celebrate the highly anticipated release of Yellow Face, the Broadway Edition.In this satire-comedy, an Asian American playwright protests yellowface...

07/10/2025

George Steinbrenner’s theater-loving granddaughter Haley Swindal is taking a big swing with a revival of the musical, slightly retooled for a new generation.

07/10/2025

"Jean grasped the power of fashion early, seeing her grandmother create bridal dresses in their native Haiti and noticing 'how people’s entire lives and faces and bodies changed when they were in something that was created for them.' Through the costumes in 'Saturday Church,' she’s been able to marry that embodied knowledge to a curatorial sensitivity she has honed while living in New York City, a place whose Black q***r community she credits with influencing contemporary streetwear and runway fashions. 'We are the fashion mecca of the world, and a lot of the influences, the genuine instinctual design, come from Black q***r culture, who are continuously the visual architects for the language of dress,' she says." - Juan Ramirez

The designer and organizer talks to Vogue about her carefully rendered work for New York Theatre Workshop’s new musical “Saturday Church.”

06/10/2025

In our latest issue, prolific solo performer Marga Gomez talks about ‘Spanish Stew,’ a new show about her arrival in San Francisco in the 1970s.

The prolific solo performer talks about ‘Spanish Stew,’ a new show about her arrival in San Francisco in the 1970s.

06/10/2025

It’s a good thing that unions and employers have a shared interest in the robust funding of the NEA and NEH—because it’s going to take a united front to make it happen, writes Jennifer Dorning, president of the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO.

It’s a good thing that unions and employers have a shared interest in the robust funding of the NEA and NEH—because it’s going to take a united front to make it happen.

06/10/2025

What shows did you do or see over the weekend?