Five years ago, playwright Adam Szymkowicz began a blog with a simple, yet intriguing, idea: to interview playwrights. Aptly titled, I Interview Playwrights, the blog has now grown to include the inspirations, challenges, advice, and shameless plugs of…

I’ve been asked to follow up on an article I wrote as part of Samuel French and Howlround’s #RightsWeek series last year. That article was about the rights issues inherent in writers protecting and monetizing their work online. I focused on early career writers…

And Then There Were None, one of the most baffling and spine-tingling thrillers penned by the Grand Dame of mystery, Dame Agatha Christie, has been produced in many forms over the course…

Annie Baker, playwright of currently playing John and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Flick, is one of the industry’s hottest writers. And her plays aren’t like other plays. They…

If you’re like us, the moment that Fun Home is mentioned, the image of an earnest and adorable Sydney Lucas pops into your mind. After three years with the Tony Award-winning musical, Lucas will be leaving the production next month.

Agatha Christie, it has been said, holds the claim of being history’s most successful playwright — more successful perhaps even than Moliere, Shaw, or Coward — and based on the ongoing London run of the original production of The Mousetrap…

The Educational Theatre Association is eager to get back to school after a record-breaking year. In 2014–15, EdTA’s International Thespian Society welcomed 41,440 new Thespians, the highest number since 1972, and a record 6,007 Junior Thespians at the 4,307 schools with high school…