Survey Says: ‘John Proctor’ Is the Most-Staged Play in the U.S.

The New York Times: “John Proctor Is the Villain,” a kinetic teen drama about a group of high school girls who are enraged and energized by the echoes of their own lives that they find in a classic play, will be the most-produced show in the country this season.

‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ will eclipse ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’ as third-longest-running play in Broadway history

www.broadwaynews.com: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will achieve a new landmark. At the 7 p.m. performance on Sept. 1, the 2018 Best Play Tony Award winner will become Broadway’s third-longest-running non-musical play.

Baltimore continues salute to August Wilson as ‘The Piano Lesson’ debuts Aug. 31

AFRO American Newspapers: It wasn’t long before that rumble became a roar as Wilson delivered a collection of 10 plays – each occurring in a specific decade during the 20th century. The stage plays struck an emotional chord with African-American audiences, who easily related to stories that illustrate the joys and pain of everyday Black life.

TCG Books Play Collection goes live on Drama Online

DC Metro Theater Arts: Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the national organization for theater, founded in 1961, and North America’s largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature – has announced that the TCG Books Play Collection is now live on Drama Online with 110 titles, and will be completed with a further 90 titles later in 2022.

We Need to Invest in Writers

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In this moment (can we even call it a moment, when it’s been more than half a year with no real end in sight?) of collective crisis, many theatre companies are scaling down to bare-bones administrative staff, seemingly hunkering down in hopes of waiting it out and emerging in the same form in the future. Others, though, are using this pandemic pause to investigate the old ways of operating and dismantle the aspects of “business as usual” that no longer serve us in favor of new, more just, and ultimately more sustainable ways of creating theatre.

New Theater Books for Summer Reading 2019

New York Theater: Here are 14 new or forthcoming books about theater, listed under three general categories — Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs; Theater History, Criticism and Reference — plus a bonus of two books likely to be of interest to theatergoers, which I list under the category Theater Adjacent. Only a few of these selections are what you could call beach reads (and a couple won’t even be officially available until the Fall), but they promise to keep you engaged in the stage even when you’re nowhere near one.

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?

'King Hedley II' gets new starting date at August Wilson House

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The opening of "King Hedley II" at the August Wilson House has been rescheduled for May 11, after cancellations of weekend performances April 27-29. The Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company production also will feature a new lead, with Rico Parker as the title character.

The 42nd Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Two impulses ran perceptibly through the 42nd Humana Festival of New American Plays.

The first was a commitment to inclusivity and diversity that permeated the festival at nearly every level. Four of the five playwrights who received full productions at the festival were female; two of those were Asian-American. The writers invited to contribute to the multi-authored “apprentice play” were equally diverse, including a Latinx writer and a female writer of Indian descent.