Two Atlanta theater companies are collaborating with community organizations and Black professionals for new productions.

His characters – tramps, discarded people, poor people, people on the fringes – are connected with all the people we know of ...

Jesse L. Kearney Jr., a playwright, a recipient of the Dramatists Guild’s Jonathan Larson Musical Theater Fellowship and the vice president of the advocacy group Black Broadway Men United, died ...

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...

And in writing the play, I thought for a long time that my craft as a playwright would stand me in good stead and that I would not necessarily have to sink so low as to actually have up there onstage ...

The special exhibit, featuring Black playwrights, librettists, lyricists and composers playing an integral part on yesterday and today’s Broadway, will extend its limited run through April 20.

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ...

The playwright was born in 1932 and grew up in Port Elizabeth ... and the Boys, takes place in a tearoom, where white 17-year-old Hally spends an afternoon with two Black men who work there, Sam and ...

Eugene Lee has long believed that the Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration he founded and has run for decades at Texas State University would eventually take on a different identity. “I always ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As a playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard defied South Africa's apartheid system, and the government punished him for it. He died Saturday at the age of 92.