The Uptown Collective is proud to announce that five talented playwrights were selected for the inaugural Renaissance Residency in 2024. These playwrights, who represent the next generation of ...

Renaissance culture loved clowning ... as well as its often sharp social and political commentary and critique, we study how playwrights deployed their clowns, tricksters, fools, knaves, and ...

will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwrights’ Sidewalk. Raised during the Harlem Renaissance, Childress became the first African-American woman to have a professionally produced play in ...