Article | By Margaret Hall | March 10, 2025
Playbill Songwriter Series: The Endless Ear Worms of Ellen Winter
Winter is a Brooklyn-based composer, music producer, and performer whose melodies you may recognize from your TikTok feed.
Article | By Molly Higgins | February 19, 2025
NAMT Announces 2024-2025 Writers Residency Grant Recipients
The grants encourage collaboration between NAMT member theatres and writers at the early stages of a project.
Article | By Margaret Hall | February 10, 2025
Playbill Songwriter Series: The Boundary Breaking Work of Samora la Perdida
La Perdida is a trans trilingual creator and performer whose work straddles a language divide to emphasize the creative possibilities within the hybrid language of Spanglish.
Article | By Logan Culwell-Block | January 30, 2025
Ars Nova Names Andrew Neisler and Anna Morton Stacey New Co-Artistic Directors
Founding Artistic Director Jason Eagan will transition into an advisory role in July.
Article | By Andrew Gans | January 16, 2025
Lucille Lortel Awards Set May Date and Name Special Award Recipients
Playwright Alice Childress will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwrights' Sidewalk.
Article | By Logan Culwell-Block | December 17, 2024
Ars Nova Managing Director Renee Blinkwolt Says She Has Been Fired
Blinkwolt was with the company for more than a decade.
Article | By Molly Higgins | November 1, 2024
Daniel Aukin and nicHi douglas Will Receive SDCF's Joe A. Callaway Awards
The awards recognize excellence in Off-Broadway direction and choreography.
Article | By Molly Higgins | October 31, 2024
Emma Rosa Went Is The Public Theater's Inaugural Directing Fellow
Went will make her Off-Broadway debut directing Else Went's Initiative at the Public next fall
Article | By Diep Tran | October 21, 2024
Photos: See a Unicorn, a Griffin, and More Medieval Creatures in Off-Broadway's The Beastiary
The new play-with-music is currently running at Ars Nova.
Article | By Molly Higgins | October 18, 2024
Ars Nova Announces 2024-2025 Residencies, Additional Fall Programming
The Off-Broadway company has also announced its commissions for the upcoming season.
Article | By Diep Tran | September 23, 2024
11 Off-Broadway Shows to See This Fall
From exciting new musicals by up-and-coming composers to a play on a barge in Brooklyn, here are some shows to get excited for.
Article | By Andrew Gans | September 17, 2024
Emily Shooltz Named New Artistic Director of Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre
Shooltz spent 14 years working at Ars Nova.
Article | By Margaret Hall | September 9, 2024
Playbill Songwriter Series: Get To Know The Dynamic Duo Grill and Chowder
The duo are recipients of the 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant, and the 2022 Relentless Award.
Article | By Margaret Hall | September 4, 2024
Noma Dumezweni Joins Tour of Stephen Brower's Palatable Gay Robot
The solo show was one of Playbill's picks for the best of the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Article | By Logan Culwell-Block | June 28, 2024
Casey York Joins Playwrights Horizons as Managing Director
The appointment sees York returning to the Off-Broadway company after a tenure as managing director of Ars Nova.
Article | By Diep Tran | May 8, 2024
Despite a Tony Nomination, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Is Still Unsure If He's a Broadway Playwright
He thought Appropriate would be closed by now, but his play is still going strong, and its picked up eight nominations.
Article | By Andrew Gans | May 7, 2024
Jeremy Blocker to Join Audible Inc. as Head of Live Creative Producing
Blocker has been executive director of New York Theatre Workshop for a decade.
Article | By Logan Culwell-Block | May 6, 2024
The title took Outstanding Musical at the Off-Broadway honors, with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' The Comeuppance taking Outstanding Play.
Article | By Margaret Hall | April 12, 2024
The Apple Boys To Receive Industry Presentation
The four-person comedy is set in turn-of-the-century Coney Island
Article | By Molly Higgins | April 4, 2024
Wet Brain Leads 2024 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations; Read the Complete List
Lempicka stars Amber Iman and George Abud announced the nominees for this year's edition of the Off-Broadway honors.
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