Playwright Matthew López made history by becoming the first Latino to win the Tony Award for best play. On stage at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday night, López paid tribute to “three queer men” ...

Terrence McNally has written 41 shows including The Lady of the Carnellias (Playwright), Maggie May (Playwright), And Things That Go Bump in the Night (Playwright), Here's Where I Belong (Bookwriter), ...

Bertolt Brecht has written 36 shows including Die Sieben Todsünden (Lyricist), Mother (Playwright), Galileo (Playwright), The Good Woman of Setzuan (Playwright), Brecht on Brecht (Lyricist), Man is ...

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Tom Stoppard, a five-time Tony-winning British playwright who also won an Oscar for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love,” has died, his agency said Saturday. He was 88 years old. “We are ...

Scant pay and no health insurance, not to mention writer’s block and the constant search for an audience — all just part of the real-life drama for a playwright trying to make it in America today.

The Tony Award-nominated playwright was arrested in November on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country Jeremy O. Harris has been released from custody in Japan on Dec. 8 ...

“Be not afraid of greatness,” Shakespeare encouraged us. Easy for him to say! But when it comes to the theater, how do we determine greatness today? And which writers deserve that accolade? In search ...

Playwright Thornton Wilder — who explored themes of social and economic inequality in Gilded Age New York in “The Matchmaker,” which inspired the blockbuster musical “Hello, Dolly!” — remains ever ...