In 1995, Lynn Nottage had her first professional production:  Crumbs from the Table of Joy,  at Second Stage in New York. The Keen Company i...

An odd and lovely play is opening at Playwrights Horizons on March 5th and running through March 19th. Written by Agnes Borinsky and directe...

When Eulalie Spence died in 1981 at age 86, her obituary noted that she was a retired school teacher but didn't mention that she was als...

While Betty Smith is famous today for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , her great love was playwrighting; she wrote over 70 one-act and f...

As made clear in James Lapine's must-read Putting It Together (review here ), the development of his and Stephen Sondheim's  Sunday ...

Among Václav Havel's extraordinary traits--talent, bravery, more bravery--his compassion is in some ways the most impressive. In his one...