Florida Repertory Theatre has announced the five new plays selected for its 2026 PlayLab Festival of New Works, scheduled for April 30 - May 3, 2026. PlayLab is an intensive weekend of rehearsals, ...

Jessie Jones, a TV actress who became a succesful playwright with “Dearly Departed” and the Jones Hope Wooten Comedies, died March 20 in Washington, D.C. after a long illness. Her friend and writing ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with playwright Wallace Shawn and director André Gregory about their newest play, "What We Did Before Our Moth Days." They've been working together for five decades. A new ...

The authors in the 39th Young Playwrights Festival, presented by Pegasus Theatre Chicago. From L: Sophia Ponce, Clark Tavas, Lola Zimmerman, and Ashley Snyder Credit: Joe Gallagher In a world filled ...

In addition to his five Tony Awards for Best Play, Stoppard won the Academy Award in in 1998 for "Shakespeare in Love" and was nominated in 1985 for "Brazil." Tom Stoppard, the brilliant, beloved ...

Tom Stoppard, the Academy and Tony Award-winning British playwright and screenwriter, has died at the age of 88. Stoppard’s agents confirmed his death to the BBC, noting in a statement that he “died ...

How the playwright and actor made their over-the-top humor sing onstage — and what 2026 holds for the Tony winner, from a Netflix series to movies and more Overall, Escola’s career seems to be proof ...

Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright, a new open-source browser automation tool from Microsoft, makes testing web apps ...

What if you could create your very own personal AI assistant—one that could research, analyze, and even interact with tools—all from scratch? It might sound like a task reserved for seasoned ...

More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York’s upper middle class. By Clay Risen Richard Greenberg, who won frequent praise as ...