Geffen Playhouse’s 2025-26 season has Athol Fugard and Pearl Cleage plays
So far, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s inaugural season at the helm of the Geffen Playhouse has spanned a muscular revival of “The Brothers Size,” a co-production…
Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard bore witness to apartheid
W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry “makes nothing happen.” While generally true, the…
Athol Fugard dead: South African playwriting great was 92
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master…