Arts Mar 10 Athol Fugard, Tony Award-winning South African playwright whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92 By Mark Kennedy, Gerald Imray, Associated Press
Arts Oct 24 Watch 5:46 Octavio Solis on growing up a ‘skinny brown kid’ on the U.S.-Mexico border As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite… By Jeffrey Brown
Arts Feb 05 Watch 8:41 The festival where being a female playwright isn’t a rarity The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, which produces works written entirely by women, opened in Washington last month. Jeffrey Brown sits down with three of the featured playwrights to discuss why they believe festivals like this are meaningful, the #MeToo movement,… By PBS News Hour
Arts Jul 31 Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and keen observer of American family life, dies at 73 Shepard, 73, died in Kentucky last week following a battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a spokesperson for the family told news outlets. By Dayana Morales Gomez
Arts Apr 11 Watch 7:12 Playwright Tracy Letts unravels different ages of identity in a single life Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts has famously depicted family dysfunction, but his latest play, “Mary Page Marlowe,” is more concerned with questions of identity, examining the life of its protagonist from infancy to old age in non-linear fashion to find… By PBS News Hour
Oct 30 Watch 6:36 ‘Disgraced’ interrogates definitions of identity and Islam in America By PBS News Hour Amir is a successful corporate lawyer living a version of the American Dream, who has turned his back on the Muslim faith of his parents. The Broadway play "Disgraced," by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, tells the story of how… Continue watching
Oct 23 Watch ‘It’s Only a Play’ pokes fun at the pain and pleasure of theater life By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch New play looks beyond war headlines to tell story of ‘Love in Afghanistan’ New play looks beyond war headlines to tell story of 'Love in Afghanistan'… Continue watching
May 10 Watch Conversation: Jon Robin Baitz’s ‘Other Desert Cities’ Jeffrey Brown talks to playwright Jon Robin Baitz about his play "Other Desert Cities."… Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch In ‘Pullman Porter Blues,’ a Family’s Trip Through Time Conversation with playwright Cheryl L. West and actor Cleavant Derricks. Continue watching