A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions. NEW YORK CITY: Benson Drive Productions has announced the three artists selected to participate in their inaugural BDP Edinburgh Fringe ...

Few know the work of playwright August Wilson quite like director Ron O.J. Parson. In 2027, the longtime resident artist at the University of Chicago’s Court Theatre will complete Wilson’s famed ...

• American playwrights, recognizing that identity is more complicated and slippery than ideology, have been shedding fresh light on what it means to be an American. • Writers such as Young Jean Lee, ...

Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel has teamed up with former Huntington Theatre Managing Director Michael Maso and philanthropist Grace Nordhoff on a new center for playwrights and theatrical ...

In 1979, five labor organizers were murdered at a protest in the streets of Greensboro, NC, by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party. A year later, César James Alvarez was born into the ...

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

Playwright Matthew Lombardo’s 2026 play “When Playwrights Kill,” New York-based theatre director Noah Himmelstein presented a thrilling comedy, where Broadway’s stars brought the laughs but ultimately ...

Matthew Lombardo’s “When Playwrights Kill” begins at the Huntington Theatre with a young guy telling an anecdote about Neil Simon and Mary Tyler Moore. You might expect that a Neil Simon play is ...

Things are getting meta in Boston. Perfomances begin tonight at the Huntington Theatre for the World Premiere production of WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL, a new backstage comedy by Matthew Lombardo and ...