All I knew about Penumbra's world premiere new play Mothership before seeing it was that it was some kind of future dystopia story. I w...

When I was in New York City a few months ago , I saw signs for the Broadway revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone , with some big names ...

A piece of musical theater trivia that I learned several years ago is that the first Broadway musical with book, music, and lyrics written b...

Although it premiered over 30 years ago, the play Marisol by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera feels like it was written for today. It...

After producing his beautifully tragic play Sugar in Our Wounds two years ago, Penumbra Theatre commissioned playwright Donja R. Love for a...

In 2015, Penumbra Theatre produced Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67 , the first of her three-play series known as The Detroit Proje...

A #TCTheater holiday* season really isn't complete without Penumbra Theatre's annual production of Black Nativity , the truest expre...

The new play FLEX , about a high school girls basketball team in the mid-90s, is receiving its area premiere at Penumbra Theatre Company. Li...

Last weekend, I saw four plays written by women. The first three were by living playwrights ( Grace McLean's musical In the Green , Laur...

Inspired by her own life and family history, playwright Nambi E. Kelley has written this solo play about a woman dealing with generations of...

A few months ago, the Guthrie produced a Pearl Cleage play called Blues for an Alabama Sky , a lovely and ultimately tragic story about a gr...

In the beautiful and brutal play Sugar in our Wounds , two enslaved men fall in love, finding a song of love that sings in both of them. But...

Prolific #TCTheater playwright Harrison David Rivers has written another beautiful and relevant story about humans. Weathering was commissi...

For two years, the artists in Penumbra Theatre's Ashe Lab Residency program have been working together to create a new work of theater/m...

Friends, if you want to be reminded of the promise of America, and have a little hope restored that this promise will one day be fulfilled, ...

Another holiday* tradition is back this year - Penumbra Theatre's joyful production of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity . They've...

"Perhaps this play might seem an odd choice, with such a [mostly white] cast, during Black History Month. But for me it is exactly th...

Penumbra Theatre has produced several works by Dominique Morisseau* (including Detroit '67 and Sunset Baby ), and is now bringing us ...

For the first time in their long and celebrated histories, #TCTheater's African American and Asian American theaters (Penumbra and Mu)...

Five years after producing The Ballad of Emmett Till , Penumbra Theatre returns to the 1955 horrific murder that became a catalyst in the ...