Although Kieran Culkin isn’t a proponent for method acting, sometimes there’s just no competing with the real thing. Following a 2012 interview in which Mark Ruffalo revealed a “naughty young actor” once got him high on stage when switching a prop joint for the real thing during a play, the A Real Pai…

Playwrights Horizons, the longstanding and prominent Off Broadway theater company that launched the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Stereophonic, has appointed a new managing director as it steers its way through what one exec calls “seismic” economic change for the nonprofit world. Casey York…

Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an Off Broadway debut next year. The musical, announced today as part of Playwrights Horizons’ 2023-24 season…

A social media campaign encouraging shutdown New York City theaters to open their lobbies – and restrooms – to protesters is gaining traction among Manhattan’s Off Broadway venues and spaces in Brooklyn: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, A.R.T./New York, IRT Theater and Irondale Center are among the first to…