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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 ...

Award-winning playwright, director, and educator Bryan-Keyth Wilson is launching The Playwright’s Lab, a one-month virtual workshop designed to guide both first-time and established playwrights ...

With his work “gay play (NO HOMO),” a Broomfield playwright uses a satirical lens to explore the barriers to LGBTQ health care and acceptance in society. Drake Susuras grew up in Broomfield and said ...

Tom Stoppard, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose intellectually challenging dramas made him one of the leading writers of the stage, has died. He was 88. Stoppard wrote more than 30 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Several attempts to capture the late Jane Scott’s story in its entirety on film and in book form have been made over the years. To date, none of them have crossed the finish line.

Back in 2018, an attorney-playwright (and former Chicago Police Department employee) named Loy A. Webb made a stunning Chicago theater debut with a play called “The Light,” a work about the aftermath ...

The University of Iowa’s New Play Festival has been around since the debut of the Playwright Workshop in 1971, and it has only grown since. The festival traditionally features four staged works from ...

A sizable crowd greeted the premiere performance of Lincoln thespian-turned-playwright Stephen Enersen’s romantic comedy “lower case” with laughter and warm applause at the Lincoln Community Playhouse ...