Entries open until 12pm (midday) on 22 April 2026. The Royal Court Theatre’s Young Playwrights Award is now open for entries! The Young Playwrights Award is a free, open-access competition for any ...

So, you want to learn Python? That’s cool. A lot of people are getting into it these days because it’s used for all sorts of things, from building websites to analyzing data. If you’re looking for a ...

He helped create the Off Off Broadway theater scene, wrote and acted in Andy Warhol’s films, and turned his fascination with collectible Americana into books. By Alex Traub Robert Heide, who began his ...

Playwrights Horizons, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway theaters and producers, is being sued by a New Jersey musician who claims that the venue’s recent discount offered to people of color is ...

Playwrights Horizons, an Off-Broadway theater, was hit with a class action on Dec. 22 in New York Southern District Court over alleged race-based discrimination. The suit, brought by Consovoy McCarthy ...

Every week at the same time, in the same place, a group of women share their stories of recovery. As weeks slip into years and decades spin into eternity, the women keep coming back amidst an ...

Tom Stoppard had already won four Tony Awards during his prolific career as a playwright when he penned what would be his final staged work, dealing with his family’s Holocaust history. Already in his ...

Tom Stoppard, writer of intellectual plays that charmed both critics and crowds, has died. He was 88. Stoppard made his reputation for intellectual wit with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” ...

Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright, a new open-source browser automation tool from Microsoft, makes testing web apps ...

DEAR WRITER: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life. By Maggie Smith. Washington Square Press. 272 pages. $28.99. Good news, friends: you’ve got mail. As in old-school actual letters.

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

Jordan E. Cooper went from performing his own plays at his childhood Baptist church in Texas to becoming the youngest Black playwright on Broadway with his show ‘Ain't No Mo' in 2022, which earned him ...