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Three new titles are joining the group's Playscripts imprint, offering budget-friendly plays to educational and non-professional companies.

Isthmus Picks for May 20-27 features a return to live theater from American Players Theatre and Madison Shakespeare Company, virtual community leadership awards presentations from YWCA Madison and Madison College, and much more.

An unexpected variety show Ross Zentner A scene from the Forward Theater production "46 Plays for America's First Ladies," with (left to right) Phoebe González, Nadja Simmonds and Matt Daniels. Sequels are very rarely better than the original stories. But Forward Theater’s current production of 46 Plays for America’s First Ladies is a definite exception — it is even better than its predecessor and companion piece, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents. Written and developed by many of the same artists from Chicago’s Neo-Futurists (Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Sharon Greene, Chloe Joh...

ONLINE: 46 Plays for America's First Ladies Forward Theater Ross Zentner A scene from the Forward Theater production "46 Plays for America's First Ladies," with (left to right) Phoebe González, Nadja Simmonds and Matt Daniels. Forward Theater is part of a world premiere for 46 Plays for America’ s First Ladies, by Chloe Johnston, Sharon Greene, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Bilal Dardai and Andy Bayiates. It’s a multimedia, genre-defying assemblage of 46 short plays that do, in some sense, act as biographies to America’s First Ladies, but are far more than that. The 100-minute sh...