Exploring the craft, culture, and people of Off-Broadway theater
Weekly Spotlight
A new partnership links Brooklyn and London, as both institutions look to stabilize, find new audiences, and expand the transatlantic pipeline.
Over a diner breakfast, the writer and director of Well, I'll Let You Go talk catharsis, their love of Our Town, and plays that make you want to call your parents.
From immersive performances to chocolate-pudding city planning, game design is reshaping how audiences participate in theater. How far can it go?
Director Colm Summers and playwright Derek Murphy on Irish humor, self-harm, and staging an unconventional love story.
The comedian and actor enters Wallace Shawn’s unconscious mind in What We Did Before Our Moth Days, directed by André Gregory.
A four-actor production led by Eric Tucker and Ryan Quinn leans into race, love — and reconsiders what Shakespeare’s tragedy asks of an audience in 2026.
The director has made a habit of restaging her Off-Broadway work (see: Mary Jane, Marjorie Prime). Now, with Clare Barron’s play at Cherry Lane Theatre, she’s revisiting past choices on a very different stage.
Playwright Libby Carr and director Caitlin Sullivan on turning a Texas tradition into a dark comedy about animals, power, and what young women inherit.
Brian Quijada, Nygel D. Robinson, and director David Mendizábal are treating theater as something to pass on — across cities, platforms, and audiences.
Four writers tracked a week of writing, teaching, procrastinating, and trying to make art fit inside ordinary days.
The playwright talks sailor archetypes, existential despair, and why musical theater can be both ridiculous and profound.
After a viral Belle and regional acclaim, the performer brings comedy, swagger, and gender-expansive freedom to New York City Center.