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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Staten Island, NY – The cast of the Sea View Playwright’s Theatre are prepping for the presentation of “Stop Kiss” by Diana Son this weekend and next. A play about hope, resilience, and ...

Helen Shaw reviews Sarah Gancher’s “Russian Troll Farm” and Sasha Denisova’s “My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion,” two plays that look for truth in a world of lies.

The launch of Playwrights Welcome, a new program developed for Dramatists Guild of America members by Samuel French along with Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing, Music Theatre ...

The Wall Street Journal takes bogus trend story of the week honors with its Feb. 26 piece “The Teleplay’s the Thing: A Growing Number of Top Playwrights Are Migrating to TV.” After noting in ...