If you’ve subscribed to a “Best of Broadway”-type touring season at a major Connecticut theater, you’ve probably seen a bunch of shows directed by Jack O’Brien. Most of those tours began as Broadway ...

In Connecticut, you can visit the writing room where Mark Twain wrote “Huckleberry Finn,” the summer cottage that Eugene O’Neill used as the setting for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” the home where ...

Legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died at 88. The five-time Tony winner, most famous for his groundbreaking 1966 play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” died “peacefully” at his home in ...

The eighteenth Famous for 15 Minutes Playwriting Festival will take place from April 18 to April 27 at the Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society. The festival supports the BMDS Charitable Trust. The ...

Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Above, Jessica Lange in Paula Vogel's Mother Play. "I ...

To many, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time. His works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have ...

Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes ...

Third-year theater student and playwright Anthony Courant aims to test the boundary of what a play can be, using his time at the University of Iowa to grow and develop his writing skills. Courant, ...