On stage from 7 to 21 June 2026, the 54th International Theatre Festival will bring to Venice over 200 artists for 55 events.

For playwright Jess Wright Buha, reimagining a classic fairytale like “Jack and the Beanstalk” wasn’t just about theatrical performance, but about creativity and collaboration. Buha had known from the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A man with cerebral palsy who dreamt of being the lead in a play decided to take matters into his own hands by writing that play himself. Andrew Justvig grew up in St. George ...

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Jeremy O. Harris said his three weeks of imprisonment in Japan may have been "an experience that rich White people would pay for" ansho Scott/BFA.com/Shutterstock ...

James Magnuson, the Austin author who helped put the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas on the literary map, died Sunday of complications from ALS. He was 84. He wrote nine ...

Capital Stage is now accepting submissions for its 2026 Playwrights’ Revolution new play festival. The program supports the development of full-length, unproduced plays through staged readings in ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies continues with The Long Walk, Lionsgate’s psychological thriller from director Francis ...

Playwrights Horizons, an Off-Broadway theater, was hit with a class action on Dec. 22 in New York Southern District Court over alleged race-based discrimination. The suit, brought by Consovoy McCarthy ...

TOKYO – Prominent American playwright and actor, Jeremy O. Harris, known for his Tony-nominated “Slave Play,” was arrested in Japan on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy, officials ...