W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol ...

Playwright Matthew López made history by becoming the first Latino to win the Tony Award for best play. On stage at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday night, López paid tribute to “three queer men” ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts has famously depicted family dysfunction, but his latest play, “Mary Page Marlowe,” is more concerned with questions of identity, examining the life of ...