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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 07/10/2026

Gabriela Furtado Coutinho makes friends with the DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA team as they embark on a missing persons investigation led by 15-year-old Latinas in Miami which she describes as “explosive, full of unprecedented evidence in girl genius and the honesty of my lived experience."

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 23/09/2026

For this month's AT Education newsletter, Allison Considine writes about the intergenerational theatre coming out of White Bird Productions. Read more at AmericanTheatre.org or at the link in stories.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 18/09/2026

We're devastated by the news of Duncan Sheik's death at age 56. We spoke to the SPRING AWAKENING composer back in 2006 about his work www.americantheatre.org/2006/05/01/t..., and we put the show on our April 2007 cover.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 18/09/2026

On our annual special episode of OFFSCRIPT, we announce the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights of the coming season, and are later joined by two of the latter, Kimberly Belflower and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, for a wide-ranging conversation.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 14/09/2026

On this month's episode of The Subtext podcast, Adrienne Dawes, the playwright of ‘You Are Pretty,’ ‘Am I White,’ and ‘Teen Dad,’ talks about growing up as a mixed-race adoptee in Texas and finding her voice as a Chicago sketch performer. Find the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 17/08/2026

May the words of Lee Cataluna, Beth Piatote, Vickie Ramirez, and DeLanna Studi invite fresh collective reflection, exploration, and transformation.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 17/08/2026

The Native theatre artists whose works we publish and excerpt represent peoples and traditions that not only predate the U.S. founding but also persist in claiming, honoring, and preserving the lands of their ancestors.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 17/08/2026

Now online: “Beyond and Before: The Land's Original Storytellers.” What’s in a nation? And who defines its dominant narrative? While the United States of America is busy celebrating its 250th birthday, we thought it would be an edifying corrective to turn to the land’s original storytellers.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 14/08/2026

This month on The Subtext, Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter José Rivera (MARISOL) about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he’s not an actor from Tom Hanks. Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: f.mtr.cool/ypifrklnrv

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 07/08/2026

In our latest Offscript episode, Rob speaks with Joseph Haj, the Guthrie's artistic director since 2015, about leadership and diversity in the U.S. theatre field, and checks in with Pittsburgh-based theatre journalist Sharon Eberson about mergers and transitions in Steel City.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 23/07/2026

Are you staging a world premiere in the coming months? If so, we need to know about it for our monthly What Else Is New? feature. Send info to at@tcg.org and rwkendt@tcg.org, and/or if you're TCG member theatre, enter the info here: www.americantheatre.org/custom-form/

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 10/07/2026

"I used to be terrified of actors because they could see right through me. But now I'm like, I love actors because they can see right through me...They're also the best dramaturgs because they're the ones living it." - playwright Dave Osmundsen on The Subtext podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 02/07/2026

What’s in a nation? And who defines its dominant narrative? While the U.S. is celebrating its 250th birthday, we thought it would be an edifying corrective to turn to the land’s original storytellers. Here, DeLanna Studi reads an excerpt from her powerful opening poem "So Let the Fireworks Come."

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 26/06/2026

SUMMER 2026 REVEAL ☀️ Our summer 2026 issue reflects on America’s semiquintennial with stories that speak to our past and present, and more. This edition is coming soon to mailboxes, drama bookstores, and select Barnes and Noble locations. Subscribe to get the mag now at AmericanTheatre.org/Join!

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 13/06/2026

Daniella Ignacio reports from the Kennedy Center

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 15/05/2026

There is currently a generational change in our field, as long-time artistic directors retire, paving the way for fresh energy. Cincy Playhouse AD Blake Robison shares his advice for the new generation. www.americantheatre.org/2026/05/14/…

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 04/05/2026

Bess Wohl's LIBERATION has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year's finalists are BOWL EP by Nazareth Hassan and MEET THE CARTOZIANS by Talene Monahan (look for it in our Summer print issue!)

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 03/04/2026

"The way I think about criticism is that it is itself a form of theatre. You have a voice, and you grip people, and you're honest, and you have an audience, and your way of respecting the medium that you're writing about is engaging with it publicly." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 17/03/2026

A colleague recalls the unstoppable output of Don Nigro, the playwright who wrote ‘Ravenscroft,’ ‘Seascape With Sharks and Dancer,’ ‘Cinderella Waltz,’ and ‘Lucia Mad,’ who died on Feb. 9 at the age of 76. f.mtr.cool/gogjjietwo

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 03/02/2026

In our winter 2026 issue, editor Gabriela Furtado Coutinho flies off to Neverland to explore how a grad student’s puppetry arts thesis, a Peter Pan adaptation, is dismantling patriarchy with Connecticut Repertory Theatre. f.mtr.cool/zxqjexylla

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 08/01/2026

As we begin 2026, we’re taking a look back at American Theatre’s most-read articles of 2025 and recommending pieces we think deserve another read. Find the whole list below: www.americantheatre.org/2026/01/08/2...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 22/12/2025

Thank you for following along in 2025! TCG’s office is closed for the holiday break until Jan. 5, and the editors are taking some time off. See you in the New Year!

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 21/11/2025

TCG, the publisher of this magazine, is proud to join Fall of Freedom in defiance of authoritarianism. We hope the linked page, featuring advocacy videos and reading lists, will inspire you during our urgent moment. www.tcg.org/Web/News/News%20Items/T…

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 30/10/2025

#tbt Our 2022 interview with Suzan-Lori Parks, in which she gave this amazing answer. www.americantheatre.org/2022/10/18/s...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 15/10/2025

Today is your last chance to enjoy our Somos Teatro book sale! Through Wednesday, October 15, we’re offering 50% off must-read titles by amazing Latine playwrights! Use the code HHM50 to unlock savings. indiepubs.com/collections/hispanic-…

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 09/10/2025

You've got one week left to take advantage of our Somos Teatro book sale! Through Wednesday, October 15, we’re offering 50% off must-read titles by amazing Latine playwrights! Use the code HHM50 to unlock savings. indiepubs.com/collections/hispanic-…

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 08/10/2025

SAVE THE DATE: Join TCG 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.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 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 to celebrate the release of Yellow Face, the Broadway Edition. Register here: centerforfiction.org/event/story-...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 25/09/2025

Just announced: a new Off-Broadway production of Rajiv Joseph's GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES, starring Kara Young and Nicholas Braun. Here's our April 2011 Q&A with Joseph when we published the full playscript. (Pictured: Pablo Schreiber & Jennifer Carpenter.) www.americantheatre.org/2011/04/01/s...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 22/09/2025

Learn more about where Come From Away will be seen in the U.S. and which of Gunderson's plays are being produced in the graphics below!

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 18/09/2025

TODAY! We announce the most-produced plays and playwrights of the season! Make sure you tune in on Facebook at 4pm ET!

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 12/09/2025

We encourage you to read the whole column, but here are a few charts, based on data from our season listings, that show the theatre field much closer to gender parity for playwrights than it's ever been. www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/11/g...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 31/07/2025

And in 2016, Mikhail Baryshnikov graced our cover in Wilson's production of "Letter to a Man." In this Q&A, Baryshnikov talks about his work in avant-garde theatre, including with Wilson www.americantheatre.org/2016/02/23/m...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 31/07/2025

The visionary theatre and opera director Robert Wilson has died at 83. American Theatre covered his work from practically our first issue, in 1984, to as recently as 2016. The following thread features a few gems from our archives:

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 05/06/2025

#tbt Our 2008 cover story Q&A with Taylor Mac about politics, performance, and the difference between a Fool and a drag queen. www.americantheatre.org/2008/11/01/g...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 16/05/2025

"In 'John Proctor,' these young girls go through so much. So I say to them, 'You know, it's not an option not to go there, but how can I support you in the fact that you need to do that?'" - director Danya Taymor, on our most recent Offscript episode www.americantheatre.org/2025/05/13/o...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 05/05/2025

Rob Ulin has been awarded the 2025 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for his play JUDGEMENT DAY. The award, which recognizes the work of an emerging playwright who has not yet received a major New York production or a major national award, includes a $3,000 prize.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 05/05/2025

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has been awarded the 2025 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for his play PURPOSE. The award, which recognizes an outstanding script that premiered in a professional production outside of New York City, includes a $25,000 cash prize.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 03/05/2025

The language used to rescind their grants was as follows:

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 04/04/2025

PRIMARY TRUST playwright Eboni Booth will appear the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn on April 16 at 7 pm, in conversation with Heidi Schreck, and with excerpts performed by William Jackson Harper and Luke Wygodny. Eboni will sign copies of the new TCG edition of her Pulitzer-winning play.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 03/04/2025

How many theatres do you know? Get acquainted with some of the range and variety of companies making vital stage work in the U.S. via our regular feature, Know a Theatre. www.americantheatre.org/category/fea...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 28/03/2025

Welcome spring with the latest issue of AMERICAN THEATRE, now on its way to mailboxes and theatre bookstores. Don’t miss “The Check-In," and subscribe AmericanTheatre.org/Join. COVER REVEAL: Dereks Thomas, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Jihan Haddad in “Someone Will Remember Us.” (Photo by Mark Turek)

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 21/03/2025

Our Spring 2025 print issue will soon arrive in mailboxes, and we’re rolling out the first piece online! Colleen Hammond reports that, as the industry is still recovering from pandemic closures, new data from TCG shows we’re not out of the woods yet. www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/19/o...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 19/03/2025

This Women's History Month, fill your library with plays by some of today's most lauded women authors. Remember, Theatre Communications Group members get 40% off of all titles on Indie Pubs. indiepubs.com/collections/...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 19/02/2025

Congrats to Brittani Samuel, who just won the 2023-24 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her reviews in The New York Times and Broadway News and her work as co-editor of the Obie-winning theatre review site 3Views. english.cornell.edu/news/freelan...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 06/02/2025

TCG Books has an exciting event upcoming (Feb. 26) with Ellen McLaughlin and Kathleen Chalfant to commemorate the publication of 'The Greek Plays.' Register at this link: centerforfiction.org/event/story-...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 05/02/2025

Christina Anderson and Mfoniso Udofia have received the 2024 Steinberg Playwright Awards, a.k.a. the "Mimis," in the amount of $100,000 each. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust gives these each year to 2 outstanding early-to-mid-career playwrights.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 08/01/2025

The death of the irreplaceable theatrical auteur Richard Foreman last week led us back into our archives. We will be publishing more on him soon but for now, the following thread contains some choice Foreman pieces from our shelves.

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 04/12/2024

Following EUREKA DAY in our Winter 2025 issue, we are excited to announce that the playscript in our Spring 2025 issue will be Lenelle Moise's bittersweet coming-of-age tale, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, which had its premiere last year with the Huntington/Front Porch Arts Collective. americantheatre.org/join

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