Playwrights Horizons is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. In a city rich with cultural offerings, Playwrights Horizons' mission is unique; it is the only major theater in New York with this specific mission. It has distinguished itself by the caliber of its work and its steadfast commitment to the voice of the American writer. It is a mission that is always timely, and it is essential to the future of the American theater.
Playwrights Horizons presents Daniel Goldstein and Michael Friedman’s sweeping, elegiac musical about a woman’s journey to unearth the secrets buried in her family’s past.
Playwright Lucas Hnath returns returns to Playwrights Horizons with a story about a friendship between two women—one who’s recently experienced a strange loss, and another who communicates with the dead.
Will Arbery's ("Plano") new drama offers an exploration of a country at war with itself, through its story of four young conservatives who have gathered at an after-party in rural Wyoming.
The author of "Men in Boats" returns to Playwrights Horizons with a new comedy that tracks and subverts patriarchal narrative tropes throughout the ages.