An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

His early dramas from the 1960s — “Blood Knot,” “Hello and Goodbye” and “Boesman and Lena” — evoke the existential concerns of the Absurdist playwrights from the era. Yet the stark ...

After seven weeks of intense rehearsals, students at El Paso Community College are set to take the stage in a new production at the college theater.The play, " ...

Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.

The Phoenix Theatre’s depiction of 'The Killing Game' did not do the play's absurdist elements any favours. In fact, it ...

Vivid Stage, in residence at Oakes Center at 120 Morris Avenue in Summit, will present In the Mix, an evening of new short ...

Sean Seeger does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Bartleby is a 2001 absurdist comedy based on the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Moby Dick author Herman Melville. Following the titular Bartleby (Crispin Glover) as his oddities begin to ...