This week's newsletter dives into a diverse range of theatrical developments, from Broadway's surprising resilience in the ...

As we ponder sharing a message of hope and human connection on World Theatre Day in 2023, our thoughts race across the globe to communities and nations that strain under ...

Athol Fugard's powerful apartheid-era drama 'My Children! My Africa!' returns to the South African State Theatre this August ...

Gavin Hood directed the 2006 Best Foreign Language Academy Award winning film Tsotsi, based on the acclaimed novel by South Africa’s greatest playwright, the late Athol Fugard. Hood only met Fugard ...

Kani, a South African, is best known for his apartheid-era, politically charged collaborations with playwright Athol Fugard.

Those who had the opportunity to work closely with Fugard described him as determined, focused, open, kind, generous and unmatchable.

As tributes pour in for Athol Fugard, the esteemed South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who passed away on Sunday at the age of 92, his significant contributions to the arts in ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose work explored the racial oppressions of apartheid, died at the age of 92. Throughout six decades, Fugard produced more than 30 plays, to great ...

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.

When playwright Athol Fugard’s first play to receive international recognition, The Blood Knot, played in London in the early 1960s, it was met with disfavour by the reigning critic of the day ...

Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an Afrikaner mother, he was best known for his politically charged plays ...

It was Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost playwright and the great chronicler of his country’s apartheid past. There he was, sipping a cup of coffee like any ordinary person. I plucked up ...