Writers and theater groups across the country are creating works in response to crackdowns on their communities

The stoop is our stage, and the street is where we stand together.

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’

This year’s Deep Water Literary Festival embraces metamorphosis and transformation—a theme that resonates through the history of literature and art, as through so much of human experience. For our ope...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage teamed with her poet daughter Runy Aiyo Gerber and veteran composer Ricky Ian Gordon to create “This House,” which makes its world premiere at Opera Theatre...

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"This House," a world premiere opera from Lynn Nottage, Ruby Aiyo Gerber, and Ricky Ian Gordon, comes to Opera Theatre of St. Louis on May 31.

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

Together this artistic group will work to support and shape our creative vision, providing the broadest access to high-quality theatre anywhere in the world.

See excerpts of the new opera This House by composer Ricky Ian Gordon, with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

See excerpts of the new opera This House by composer Ricky Ian Gordon, with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber.

The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre Company is expanding its acclaimed Genesis Festival of New Voices and New Plays with a new award in partnership with Columbia Universit...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and poet and writer Ruby Aiyo Gerber discuss co-writing the opera, “This House,” which has its world premiere on May 31 at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and poet and writer Ruby Aiyo Gerber discuss co-writing the opera, “This House,” which has its world premiere on May 31 at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.

A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”

The department’s Office for Civil Rights warned that it would penalize schools that consider race in scholarships, hiring and an array of other activities.

Issa Rae became the first major artist to publicly cancel an upcoming show at the center after President Donald Trump took over its board and leadership.

The wire service said the decision stemmed from a style guidance to continue using the name Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America.

A visit to a burlesque show—and a comment from the legendary playwright Lynn Nottage—provided the kernel of inspiration behind a new play about trans identity.

Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm. Signed on the day of his inauguration, Trump’s executive order “De...