TOKYO (AP) — A prominent American playwright and actor, Jeremy O. Harris, known for his Tony-nominated “Slave Play,” has been arrested in Japan on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug known as ...

Young Jean Lee's comedy about a man and his adult sons opens Monday. Young Jean Lee was just 2 years old when she moved to the U.S. from South Korea with her family for the American dream. She grew up ...

Founded in 1978, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize is the longest-running prize in English theatre for female and nonbinary playwrights. American writer ak payne has won the 2025 prize for their play ...

Sanaz Toossi is having a moment – her first production ever, English, just won a Lucille Lortel award for outstanding new off-Broadway play,... Iranian-American playwright is set on breaking ...

Playwright Larissa FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm for Indigenous arts and audiences. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been getting ...

David Snider, producing artistic director of the Young Playwright’s Theater since 2005, believes that many future playwrights are currently students in Greater Washington schools and participants in ...

It's not every day a playwright gets two productions at major non-profit theaters within a few months, much less a playwright who had previously never had a single play staged. "English was my first ...