Did you hear the one (so the joke goes) about the Polish actress? She slept with the writer. Now this is a joke about screenwriters and Hollywood. Not playwrights and San Francisco. But it pretty much ...

The world lost its most celebrated modern playwright over Thanksgiving weekend. Tom Stoppard made history. He won five Tony Awards - five - for best play on Broadway. He also wrote many movie ...

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It's 2022. In the theater, the number of productions of plays by female playwrights is well above where it was at the start of the 21st century. Female playwrights have not reached parity with male ...

The Plays by Young Writers Festival’s “Night of Celebration” on Saturday marks a milestone for its presenting Playwrights Project organization: 40 years of producing winning plays from its California ...

When Martyna Majok got the call that she was co-honored with a 2023 Steinberg Playwright Award and that she and Mona Mansour would each be given $100,000 from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable ...

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It's not every day a playwright gets two productions at major non-profit theaters within a few months, much less a playwright who had previously never had a single play staged. "English was my first ...

In “Marjorie Prime” and other works, Jordan Harrison delivers sweet-bitter anatomies of human connection mediated through ...