The Hard-Won Wisdom of Black Women Playwrights. Last weekend, the Hansberry Project brought together 11 talented artists to talk about what it means to be black and a woman in the theater.

England's greatest ever poet and playwright William Shakespeare would be celebrating his 455th birthday if he were alive today. Born in Straford-upon-Avon in 1564, Shakespeare died in the same ...

William Shakespeare remains the UK’s best-known and best-loved playwright and poet, not to mention the most-performed (Picture: Alamy) The English language, and our appreciation for the power of ...

Playwrights can’t quit their initial calling, Metzler says. Rather, they feel compelled to succeed in both theater and television in ways that enrich each in equal measure.

She joins a growing band of playwrights who have made the leap to high-end TV. The biggest name of the moment is Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose 2013 playwriting debut Fleabag became a TV phenomenon ...

Discover the new closing dates for Sad Boys in Harpy Land and School Pictures at Playwrights Horizons. Hurry and get your tickets now to catch these extended performances of these highly acclaimed ...

In “Lessons From My Teachers,” playwright Sarah Ruhl (“The Clean House, “Eurydice”) derives lessons from her years of being, in the very best sense of the phrase, a perpetual student ...

Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright and a master satirist, died on Tuesday night at his home in Pipersville, Pa., in Bucks County. He was 75. His agent, Patrick Herold, said the ...