#Women Playwrights
Jessica Chastain Returns to Broadway with Amy Herzog’s Adaptation of “A Doll’s House”
This year’s Best Actress Oscar winner is heading to the stage: Jessica Chastain is returning to Broadway. Deadline reports that she’ll star as Nora Helmer in a “radical new...
Diane Davis’ Weinstein-Inspired Play “Complicity” to Make World Premiere This Fall, Illana Stein Directs
“Complicity,” Diane Davis’ play about the system that enables and protects sexual abuse in Hollywood — specifically the women who play a part in upholding that system —...
Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer-Winning Play “Cost of Living” Will Make Broadway Debut This Fall
Martyna Majok’s play “Cost of Living” is getting another staging — this time on Broadway. Deadline reports the production will make its debut on the Great White Way at the Samuel...
Audra McDonald Returning to Broadway with a New Play by Adrienne Kennedy
Audra McDonald is Broadway bound. The six-time Tony winner is returning to The Great Bright Way with “Ohio State Murders,” a new play by Adrienne Kennedy, per Variety. An exploration of the...
“Vida” Creator Tanya Saracho Bringing “Mala Hierba” to the Big Screen in Feature Directorial Debut
“Vida’s” creator is back and taking inspiration from her theater days. Deadline reports that Tanya Saracho is bringing “Mala Hierba,” her 2014 Off-Broadway play, to the...
Pick of the Day: “What the Constitution Means to Me”
As I write this, the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings are winding down. Described as “unashamedly pro-life” and a self-proclaimed constitutional originalist, she will most likely...
Applications for the 2021 Leah Ryan’s FEWW Playwriting Prize Opening Soon
Applications for next year’s Playwriting Prize from Leah Ryan’s Fund for Emerging Women Writers (FEWW) will open later this month. Any women or non-binary-identifying playwrights who...
Trailer Watch: Heidi Schreck Pushes America to Be Better in “What the Constitution Means to Me”
When she was a teenager, Heidi Schreck toured the country giving speeches about the U.S. Constitution in order to earn scholarship money for college. She revisits those speeches and reexamines her...
The Kilroys’ 2020 List Honors Cancelled and Postponed Plays by Women, Trans, and Non-Binary Writers
The Kilroys, the feminist collective of playwrights, directors, and producers, has published its annual List. Unlike previous editions, The List 2020 doesn’t feature unproduced plays by women,...
Tyler English-Beckwith Wins Leah Ryan’s Fund For Emerging Women Writers
Playwright Tyler English-Beckwith has received Leah Ryan’s Fund For Emerging Women Writers for her play “Mingus.” A press release describes the work as a “smart, dynamic, and...
Martyna Majok’s Play “Queens” Being Developed as HBO Drama
Martyna Majok is bringing one of her plays to HBO. The network has put a series adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning playwright’s “Queens” into development, Deadline reports. Majok...
Paula Vogel and Daryl Roth Launch New Play Commission at Vineyard Theatre
Frequent collaborators Paula Vogel and Daryl Roth are teaming up yet again — this time to support established playwrights. The respective Pulitzer Prize-winning “How I Learned To Drive”...
“Designing Women” Is Heading to the Stage
Julia, Mary Jo, Charlene, Suzanne, and Anthony will soon have a second life on the stage. The New York Times reports that a “Designing Women” play will open this summer at Fayetteville,...
Writer to Watch: Playwright and “Rocks” Scribe Theresa Ikoko
For Theresa Ikoko, writing is about “loving people back.” As the playwright and screenwriter recalled in an interview with International Cinephile Society, she had this epiphany when she...
Playwright Bess Wohl on Her Broadway Debut “Grand Horizons”
Playwright Bess Wohl is making her Broadway debut this season with “Grand Horizons,” the story of a couple (Jane Alexander and James Cromwell) who move to a quiet retirement community...
Jackie Sibblies Drury and Lauren Yee Named 2019 Steinberg Playwright Award Recipients
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has revealed the winners of its 2019 Steinberg Playwright Award. “Fairview’s” Jackie Sibblies Drury and “Cambodian Rock...
Writer to Watch: Sofia Alvarez of the “To All the Boys” Films
Though “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” is screenwriter Sofia Alvarez’s first feature film, she’s been writing for the majority of her life. As the Baltimore native told the Baltimore...