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Daniel Beaty, the multiple award-winning writer and performer of Emergency! and Through the Night is back, returning to the stage of The Riverside Theatre with his latest solo play, Mr. Joy. In this new work, presented by Riverside Theatre and the New Heritage Theatre, Beaty brings back audiences’ favorite characters from Emergency! with new stories to tell along with a host of new characters for a limited three-week run from Saturday, May 12 to Saturday, June 2 at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Ave. (bet. 120th & 122nd Sts.), Morningside Heights.  Read More

Soho Rep has announced the plays that will be featured in its upcoming work-in-progress presentations in April and May.  Read More

Victory Gardens Theater artistic director Chay Yew recently announced a new slate of ensemble playwrights for the company, including New Dramatists resident playwright Marcus Gardley.  Read More

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced the 21 performing artists in contemporary dance, jazz, theatre and multidisciplinary work who have been named as the inaugural Doris Duke Artists.  Read More

Water by the Spoonful, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, recognizing an outstanding stage work that premiered during the 2011 calendar year. The winner was announced 3 PM April 16 at Columbia University.  Read More

It has been a week since I was at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Humana Festival and the presentation of our own show, Oh, Gastronomy! This has given me time to process the experience, carefully study the pictures I took of all the food I ate while I was there, and reflect on how the show came together.  Read More

HowlRound.com's David Dower recently interviewed current New Dramatists Van Lier Fellows Jackie Sibblies Drury, Brian Otaño and Charise Castro Smith for his podcast on HowlRound.com.  Read More

In a couple of weeks I’ll take my not-quite-five-year-old son to see his first Broadway musical: Newsies. This means that, among other things, I’ll be exposing him, before anything else, to a show whose book is written by a playwright, performer, and drag artist named Harvey Fierstein. I like the thought of that.  Read More

In February 2010 I was 40 pages into a new script, a play about a baby with a rare and mysterious illness, when my then 11-month-old son was admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with one.  Read More

Marie Antoinette, a new comedy by Elective Affinities and Stunning playwright David Adjmi, will open the 2012-13 season of the American Repertory Theater.  Read More

Before sitting down to work, playwright Lucas Hnath often prepares by taking on The New York Times’ crossword puzzle. Hnath said he particularly depended on this strategy when writing “Death Tax,” which begins its premiere run tonight in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays.  Read More

FOOD: The word connotes so many things. Personally, it’s one of my favorite words — the two “o”s in the middle look like a pair of binoculars staring out at everything that makes my stomach happy. I think of donuts, ribeye steaks, grilled cheese sandwiches, sushi, prime rib; I think of Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles, of the awesome gay frozen yogurt shop in West Hollywood (“Pump it yourself!”), of McDonald’s french fries. I think of gluttony, I think of Thanksgiving, I think of joy; a billion things come to mind.  Read More

Annie Baker is not one to court the spotlight. The shy 30-year-old playwright seems to prefer expressing herself on the page to chatting about her work. She's a wordsmith, not a showboat, and her plays sing with the quiet pleasures of sharp observation and genuine feeling.  Read More

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced productions for its 2012-2013 season, which will include world plays from Mia Chung and Kristoffer Diaz, among others.  Read More

Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 2012-13 subscription season in Chicago will feature the world premiere of the Tina Landau-directed Steppenwolf commission Head of Passes by ensemble member Tarell Alvin McCraney.  Read More

This content is sourced from Playbill.com.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 season in Berkeley, CA, will include the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's comedy and the West Coast premiere of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, the Tony Award-winning company announced on March 1.