For Coconut Grove-based playwright and producer William Hector, a theater festival in the neighborhood was no coincidence. A love for the arts and community, bred in the Grove, set him off on a ...

Things are getting meta in Boston. Perfomances begin tonight at the Huntington Theatre for the World Premiere production of WHEN PLAYWRIGHTS KILL, a new backstage comedy by Matthew Lombardo and ...

Jessie Jones, a veteran TV character actor who guested on such popular series as Murphy Brown, Newhart and Night Court and also was a prolific comedy playwright, has died. She was 75. Her writing ...

Jessie Jones, a playwright whose comedies became staples of regional and community theatre across the United States, died March 20 in Washington, D.C., following a long illness. She was 75. Best known ...

Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s love for theater started early. As a child, her father, R.N. Sandberg, a playwright and theater professor, took her to one of his classes at Cornish College of the ...

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After an industry reading in New York last year, Matthew Lombardo’s new play “When Playwrights Kill” is headed to Boston’s Huntington Theatre. The world-premiere production will run from April 3-18.

Off Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons is being sued for discrimination over a one-night discount during its run of Nazareth Hassan’s Practice. A New Jersey–based musician named Kevin Lynch ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --Tony-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88. The scribe was best known for his stage dramas, The Real Thing, Travesties and ...