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PENNEY FARMS —The playwrights sat in the front row and exchanged glances eagerly as the lights dimmed. Each playwright wondered just before the show, but none more so than the one whose play was …

This year’s festival includes six stories that focus on a range of topics — from coal mining and medicinal herbs to race and spooky childhood homes.

Abingdon Theatre Company has announced two new Artists-in-Residence for their upcoming 31st season beginning in the fall. Matt Webster and Cris Eli Blak are set to be the next participants in the Carolyn Halpert Artist-in-Residence program, which began in 2017.

"Arguably the most successful Black theatre group in the world,” (American Theatre) the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC), Penn Live Arts’ 2022-23 season artist in residence, performs Mecca is Burning, a world premiere play that examines the current social climate through the perspective of four Harlem families.

Purple Crayon Players’ 14th Annual PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works will celebrate plays written for young audiences this Saturday and Sunday in Seabury Hall. The festival will feature “The Dummy Class” by playwright Dave Osmundsen, “Heart Strings” by Lee Cataluna, “Salomé’s Tour de France” by Communication senior Mariana Reyes Daza and “The Show Ends When...

The Makers' Ensemble will presents their first-ever SHORT PLAY FEST. Produced by Founding Artistic Director Dante Green and Associate Artistic Director Camille Pileggi, four Curated Directors lead a work in progress showing of four new plays by four dynamic Emerging Playwrights.

Print Common Ground Theatre launched an ambitious new season this month with a trio of plays by Black male playwrights that signaled its unflinching new focus on the contemporary Black experience. Earlier this year, award-winning local actor and director Yolanda Franklin was named executive artistic director of Common Ground. She is the first woman artistic director in the 57-year history of the oldest Black theater company in San Diego and the third-oldest in the United States. Despite the pan...