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It’s day one of tech for Vietgone. Four weeks since the cast began working in the rehearsal room. And I’m thinking about ninja.

Not the black-clad assassins popular in martial arts films, mind ... Read More ›

Director Lavina Jadhwani has been working with Writers Theatre for close to ten years now. When Director of New Work & Dramaturgy Bobby Kennedy ... Read More ›

We’re now a week and a half into busy daytime rehearsals of Vietgone, Qui Nguyen’s 2015 dramatization of his parents meeting as refugees from Vietnam in 1975. In terms of nut and ... Read More ›

“This is not a story about war. It’s a story about falling in love.” These are the words of Vietgone playwright Qui Nguyen, who (playfully) clarifies in the play’s opening moments that this story ... Read More ›

Pictured: Julian Parker, Kayla Carter, Deanna Myers and Erik Hellman. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

I fell in love with Lydia R. Diamond’s writing when I saw her play Stick Fly at The ... Read More ›

Pictured: A.C. Smith and Bethany Thomas. Photo by Saverio Truglia.

Director William Brown has put together a remarkable cast to take the characters in Eugene O’Neill’s classic A Moon for the Misbegotten from ... Read More ›

Pictured: Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1590. Archive Photos/Getty Images.

In Migel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quixote, widely acknowledged to be the first modern novel, Sancho Panza says to Don Quixote, “Before long, there ... Read More ›

FROM MICHAEL HALBERSTAM, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Pictured: Shannon Cochran, Jennifer Latimore and Rebecca Hurd. Photo by Saverio Truglia.

I had the good fortune of attending the Stratford Festival a few weeks ago, where I ... Read More ›

FROM MICHAEL HALBERSTAM, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Writers Theatre is lucky enough to be members of a national trade and advocacy organization for the nation’s theatre companies called the Theatre Communications Group (TCG). In fact ... Read More ›