Few know the work of playwright August Wilson quite like director Ron O.J. Parson. In 2027, the longtime resident artist at the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre will complete Wilson’s famed ...

A local group of stalwart playwrights that goes under the name of 36 North is in the middle of its seasonal series of staged readings, titled Script-in-Hand Reading Series. The free summer readings, ...

• American playwrights, recognizing that identity is more complicated and slippery than ideology, have been shedding fresh light on what it means to be an American. • Writers such as Young Jean Lee, ...

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Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel has teamed up with former Huntington Theatre Managing Director Michael Maso and philanthropist Grace Nordhoff on a new center for playwrights and theatrical ...

For those who love theater, original thinking, creativity and good writing, the Nevada County Playwrights Collective is bringing a wealth of new voices and new plays to the Miners Foundry for four ...

Bess Wohl's play about a feminist group in the 1970s takes home the award after winning the Pulitzer Prize. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer “I really need first to thank my mom, who taught me to use ...

In 1979, five labor organizers were murdered at a protest in the streets of Greensboro, NC, by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party. A year later, César James Alvarez was born into the ...

Susanna Kaysen forever changed the lives of countless teenage girls with her 1993 memoir, Girl, Interrupted, about the author’s two-year stint at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility where she was ...

While the NFL season is still four months away, fans can begin planning their falls after the league released its full 272-game regular-season schedule Thursday night. The 2026 campaign kicks off with ...

Playwright and screenwriter Emily Bohannon — courtesy of the artist. After more than a decade, Emily Bohannon, a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights Program, finally got to see her play, The Fiancé, ...