Of the 79 plays being performed in 2024, 68 (87%) were written after 2000, 60 (76%) were written after 2014 and 23 (29%) will have their world premiere in 2024. Only three were written prior to the 20th century. - ArtsHub
The production, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play set in the days of Oswald Mosley's Union of British Fascists, stars Tracy-Ann Oberman as a single-mother Shylock. She says audiences and critics have been very supportive, but since the Gaza War broke out, antisemites have made verbal attacks and threats. - Variety
After surveying more than 8,000 audience members, who expressed desires for more time for post-show dinner, discussion, and/or catching the last train home, the NT will start a pilot scheme this winter of 6:30 pm start times for some Tuesday and Thursday performances. - The Guardian
In 2021, New Rep paused its operations due to financial losses incurred during the pandemic. It reopened nine months later on a smaller scale with a renewed focus on new work and diverse voices. - WBUR
For the second year running, Lynn Nottage tops the list, which includes nine women out of 20. (Lauren Gunderson, once the perennial leader, is now in eighth place.) Contemporary writers dominate; with Shakespeare omitted, the only canonical playwright, at no. 4, is August Wilson. - American Theatre
For those who keep count, works by female creators make up almost half the list (definitely half if you count Carole King), and three of the top seven are by BIPOC playwrights. (The two extra places on the list are because of ties.) - American Theatre
"The way we work together is as crucial as what we make, and that means acknowledging how badly we need each other’s ideas and artistry and experience—especially when it’s different from our own." - Howlround
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely new creative team — and with Nobel Prize-winning girls' education advocate Malala Yousafzai and former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among the co-producers. - TheaterMania
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and talks to him about how (and why) he works as he does. - The New York Times
The January festival of new and experimental theater has been reassembled by founder/director Mark Russell, indie production company ArkType, and over a dozen theater companies ranging from La MaMa and Mabou Mines to St. Ann's Warehouse and Soho Rep to the Japan Society and Lincoln Center. - Playbill
Watching his A Summer Day, "I succumbed to a strangely paradoxical feeling of calm, continuous dread. … I could understand why Fosse’s work had never caught on with English-speaking audiences — it lacked the release of humor that Beckett provided — but there was no denying its stealthy power." - The New York Times
