Wyoming's lone U.S. representative might draw a crowd, but her stage presence distracts from more meaningful community engagement, actor and director Anne Mason writes.

Athol Fugard’s plays show the ways apartheid shaped the lives of South Africans, while they also reveal universal truths.

Beneath the grand dome of Nigeria’s Senate, where power and performance often collide, another political drama unfolded, ...

Launched by three San Diego Black women, OnWord Theatre will offer a wide range of work in the style of Chicago’s Steppenwolf ...

Theater about current events — both literally and abstractly — is changing the conversation between playwrights, directors and their audiences. By Mark Harris Photographs by Jennifer ...

Playwrights and directors wrestle with how a piece of art can galvanize its audience. By Hanya Yanagihara In an era of vanishing cultural authority and ever-abbreviated attention spans, being ...

The recent edict demanded by President Trump that Arlington Cemetery remove all specific references to Black, Hispanic, or female occupants of this sacred ground is petty and vindictive.

Keir Starmer's peacekeeping proposals in Ukraine have been dismissed as 'political theatre' by senior military insiders. The Prime Minister laid out plans for a 'coalition of the willing' earlier ...

Athol Fugard’s work has the sharp, gleaming edge that culture can have when forged during political ordeals. But that’s only one of the reasons we gravitate to the idiosyncratic plays of the ...