We Are Theatre

09/15/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/t-magazine/endurance-art-guerrilla-girls-tehching-hsieh.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.04UB.nsDJsV9EsK4F&smid=url-share

In a world of constant instability, these artists are testing the limits of endurance.

07/24/2025

Oy. Back to square one.

In the late days of June, as new-season theatre announcements were rolling in, a shock hit New York. Playwrights Horizons, the birthplace of shows including the Pulitzer Prize winners “Sunday in the Park with George” and “The Flick,” announced its programming for 2025-26. In a notably diverse lineup, there was only one woman writer, and she occupied half a slot. Playwrights Horizons wasn’t alone. Other major theatres revealed their programming, some of which reverted to familiar patterns from a decade ago. The Roundabout Theatre will give one slot out of four to a woman. Classic Stage Company confirmed a season of three shows, all written and directed by white men. And the Williamstown Theatre Festival, enjoying its first summer under its new director, Jeremy O. Harris, has zero plays written by women among its 2025 productions.

The low representational numbers for women are difficult to square. By various measures (including the numbers of women graduating from degree programs in the arts), roughly two-thirds of the field’s writers are women—there is not, as artistic directors once argued, a pipeline issue. It seemed particularly bitter that, even as theatres made passionate arguments for diversity and new artistic directors took over from the old guard, certain habits were creeping back. Are we seeing a reflection of the country’s increasingly misogynist politics? Is there a kind of moral fatigue at play? Read Helen Shaw’s full commentary: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/NwJZH7

07/04/2025

BACKWARDS WE GO! Grrrrrrrr..... https://www.broadwayworld.com/topic/Industry-Insight-Cara-Joy-David

06/25/2025

Playwrights Horizon's is going backwards - their new season of six plays? Five of them written by men, and one co-written by a woman. Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

02/22/2025

WE ARE THEATRE!

WE WILL NOT COMPLY We will continue producing the work we believe in,with the artists we believe in, without compromise.As members of our community, I’m writing to share with you an important matter that impacts the future of Primary Stages.New mandates from the National Endowment for the Arts (NE...

02/16/2025

Women in theatre. “Critters” comes to New Circle Theatre!

10/15/2024

What Makes a Successful Museum Land Acknowledgment?

Some Indigenous scholars have come to regard the standard land acknowledgment as “hollow” and “not enough.”

02/25/2024

Reviving ‘The Wiz’ Through ‘the Blackest of Black Lenses’

The beloved 1975 musical returns to Broadway this spring, with nods to Black culture like second-line parades and Underground Railroad quilts.

12/21/2023

British Museum Announces $63M Partnership With Oil Giant.

The museum said it will use the BP funds to pursue environmental goals, prompting climate activists to call out the institution's hypocrisy.

11/30/2023

Frances Sternhagen, Actress Who Thrived in Mature Roles, Dies at 93

Her Tony-winning Broadway career included “Driving Miss Daisy,” “On Golden Pond” and “The Heiress.” On TV she had maternal roles in “Cheers” and “Sex and the City.”