Jessie Jones, a theater playwright and TV actress known for roles on "Murphy Brown" and "Perfect Strangers," has died. She was 75. Jones' writing partner Jamie Wooten – who with Nicholas Hope formed ...

In partnership with the Wilder family, The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) has launched the Thornton Wilder Playwriting Scholarship, a new national scholarship recognizing and supporting an ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The lawsuit objected to a “BIPOC night” program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit. By Michael Paulson A prominent nonprofit theater ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades. A new ...

If you’ve been going to the theatre lately, you’ve seen plenty of what I’ve started to think of as “piñata plays.” In this sort of story, a big family gets together and there are a lot of secrets. For ...

The recipients of the 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards (the “Mimi” Awards), presented by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, are Christopher Chen and Zora Howard. The $100,000 award is ...

SEATTLE — Bessie Coleman is the first Black and Native American woman to obtain an international pilot's license. She achieved this in 1921. While her barrier-breaking story is inspiring, it's one ...

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To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Detroit's death have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, the city, which is the most populous in the state of Michigan, is slowly building a reputation as one ...

President Trump and his minions seem intent on doing everything they can to minimize the singular nature of the Black experience throughout American history, especially the role that racism has played ...