In this edition of managing editor Jerald Raymond Pierce's Sightlines, we experience an inaugural WBEZ event, tour TimeLine’s newest space in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, and learn more about a Seattle-based designer.

Over the past few months, American Theatre surveyed industry workers, leaders, and observers for the plays and musicals that have shaped theatre in the U.S. in the 21st century. We've compiled the results into 50 remarkable titles. Which titles would you include on your list?

This package was a labor of love (equal emphasis on both labor and love). Thank you to the entire American Theatre team who helped put it together, including @thejrpierce.bsky.social, Gabriela Furtado Coutinho, @pieceofkay.bsky.social & @daniellaignacio.bsky.social. Let a thousand discourses bloom

This edition of Roll Call features leaders and artists who are standing out in the Boston theatre community, behind the scenes, onstage, and in administration and education. www.americantheatre.org/2025/11/24/6...

Managing editor Jerald Raymond Pierce recently immersed himself in the world of Candle House Collective's LENNOX MUTUAL. The experience engages participants in a series of 20-minute phone calls that can go to some very odd, personal places. www.americantheatre.org/2025/04/11/y...

From our Winter 2025 issue, Jerald Raymond Pierce reports on MEMORIAM, a world premiere at Houston’s Main Street Theater wherein people can rent and fully experience the memories of others. www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/26/m...

The @aclu.org & @riaclu.bsky.social have filed suit on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, to challenge a new NEA grant guideline mandating that applicants comply with the president’s anti-trans “gender ideology” executive order to receive funding. www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/06/a...

Back in 2024, Woodzick recorded an incredible 'Theatrical Mustang' episode with Sunam Ellis, a Seattle-based actor-director-educator, about Ellis's passions and practices to create caring spaces. Now available here or on any podcast streaming service! www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/24/s...

Available to read in our current issue, just saying. www.americantheatre.org/winter-2025/

From our Winter 2025 issue, Jerald Raymond Pierce previews Ankita Raturi’s response to Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ a world premiere play that explores what it means to try to survive in a new place when those already there treat you as a monster. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/18/g...

Are you an early career theater journalist or critic of color? You should apply for this program tcg.org/Web/Web/Our-...

Steve H. Broadnax III caught the theatre bug at his hometown theatre, Little Rock's Arkansas Rep. Now he's returning as the theatre's artistic director, joining 2 other area natives, executive director Will Trice and producing director Ken-Matt Martin. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/14/r...

Had this fun chat with my old buddy @isaacbutler.bsky.social for @americantheatre.bsky.social's podcast about Eureka Day.

From our Winter print issue: We check in with playwright Larissa FastHorse, whose new farce FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT starts at L.A.'s Center Theatre Group next week, about how rehearsals are going and what keeps her going in tough times. www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/16/p...

Stevie Walker-Webb, who's been leading Baltimore Center Stage for a little over a year, talks to Jerald Raymond Pierce about his city ("a Black cultural mecca"), about his work at the theatre so far, and what's still to come amid challenging times. www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/31/s...

In "Quetzali and the Comic Book Queen vs. the Alebrije of Darkness" at Lexington Children's Theatre, playwright Alvaro Saar Rios sets out to popularize Aztec mythology in much the same way Greek myths have been reimagined for young people. www.americantheatre.org/2025/01/28/a...