It wasn’t easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining ...

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol ...

Scant pay and no health insurance, not to mention writer’s block and the constant search for an audience — all just part of the real-life drama for a playwright trying to make it in America today.

Currently enjoying an extended run at Studio Theatre, “The Mother Play,” (also known as “The Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions,” or more simply, “Mother Play”) is a 90-minute powerful and poignant ...

The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week. The world lost its most celebrated modern playwright over ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Oct. 21, 2021. Find that audio here. Quiara Alegria Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who's also known for her collaboration with Lin Manuel ...

Playwright Wendy Wasserstein died Monday in New York City after battling cancer. She was 55 years old. Day to Day has this remembrance of her prolific career and award-winning plays that celebrated ...

Microsoft today announced the release of the Python version of Playwright, a framework for end-to-end testing of web applications in Python. Playwright is the latest in a slew of Microsoft-created ...

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PlayPenn, the national center for new plays and playwrights devoted to nurturing bold new voices in contemporary theatre, has announced its 2025/2026 Cohort and the reimagining of one of its core ...