As we ponder sharing a message of hope and human connection on World Theatre Day in 2023, our thoughts race across the globe to communities and nations that strain under ...

From the financial strains detailed in TCG’s 'Theatre Facts 2023' report to leadership transitions at major institutions like ...

Athol Fugard's powerful apartheid-era drama 'My Children! My Africa!' returns to the South African State Theatre this August ...

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late ...

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and inspire generations, is being remembered for his seismic impact .

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose work explored the racial oppressions of apartheid, died at the age of 92. Throughout six decades, Fugard produced more than 30 plays, to great ...

No one can tell the story of protest theater without mentioning the names of Athol Fugard, Winston Ntshona and myself. Now, with their deaths, I must accept that my two beautiful friends ...

Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it. He died Saturday at the age of 92.