A Highly Subjective List of the (So Far) Best Plays and Musicals of the 21st Century

Broadway & Me: Like all lists, this one says more about the people making the list than it does about the films on the list. But it got me thinking about what a similar list of the best plays and musicals that have opened over the past 25 years might look like.

Coronavirus Update: March 23, 2020: Battening Down, Mobilizing, Helping Out

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Here's our latest update of events related to the coronavirus. Nations continue to move, if not quickly or totally effectively, to deal with the disease and provide relief for workers. The entertainment industry is mobilizing on several fronts, raising money and petitioning the government for help.

The Top 30 College Theatre Design and Tech Programs for 2019-2020

OnStage Blog: Starting in April, we tasked a committee of just over 20 people to research these programs. They consisted of theatre educators, students, alumni, and parents. We wanted people who knew how to evaluate a performing arts program and what questions to ask. This is what we feel separates us from every other college ranking article, these folks know what’s important in theatre education.

American Theatre Magazine Picks Most Produced Plays and Playwrights of 2019- 20 Season

www.broadwayworld.com: American Theatre magazine, published by Theatre Communications Group, has just released its annual lists of the Top 10 Most-Produced Plays and Top 20 Most-Produced Playwrights for the 2019/2020 season.

Tied for the most produced play of the season are two former Broadway titles, Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens.

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Tony-nominated bluegrass musical, Bright Star, also made the list.

How About a Few New Myths about Creativity?

The Creativity Post: Bloggers and journalists can’t seem to resist discussing the many misconceptions that exist about creativity. Try googling “myths of creativity” (“4 Myths of Creativity”, “10 Myths of Creativity”, “7 Myths of Creativity”...) and you will find any number that have pretty much been debunked.

Variety Highlights 2018’s 10 Assistants to Watch

Variety: The supporting team for Hollywood’s power players help their bosses while navigating their own careers. Variety selects 2018’s 10 Assistants to Watch

Big 10: The 10 Most Represented Colleges on Broadway in the 2018-2019 Season

Playbill: As part of Playbill’s Back to School week (#BwayBacktoSchool), we have combined past Schools of the Stars features that track where members of the casts for each Broadway show went to college, along with a bit of added research, to present the ten colleges currently most represented on Broadway (plus a few honorable mentions). This list represents not only Broadway shows that are currently open, but a few shows that have announced casting for the 2018-2019 season. Check them out and see if your school (or the school you’re possibly considering) is on the list!

Carnegie Mellon rated No. 1 among programs offering BFAs in musical theater

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Noting that Carnegie Mellon University is "the Grandaddy of them all" — in other words, the longest-running degree-granting school of drama in the United States — OnStage Blog declared the school No. 1 in its list of “The Top 25 BFA Musical Theatre Programs for 2018-19.”

Plays for Labor Day. In praise of theater about unions, workers and workplaces.

New York Theater: It was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1936 play “Days to Come,” which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, that I suddenly wondered: Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces?