The Summer edition of the quarterly shines a light on the 2025/26 theatrical season, from Broadway and world premiere productions to our very own Dramatists Guild Awards. Join us in celebrating our awardees—Migdalia Cruz, Bess Wohl, Lisa Kron, Kimber Lee, Victor I. Cazares, Benjamin Velez and Joy Huerta, and Liberty Welch and Maggie Lawson—and more! 

The Spring 2026 edition of the quarterly embraces the transformational nature of the season, from Rolling World Premieres with the National New Play Network to “The Alchemy of Adaptation.” 

The Winter 2025 edition of the quarterly explores grief in its many forms—career grief, personal grief, collective grief, culturally-inherited grief—with contributions from a.k. payne, Luis Alfaro, Clarence Coo, C.A. Johnson, and more. In “Good Medicine,” Karen Hartman moderates a conversation with Julia Izumi, Nambi E. Kelley, and Sarah Ruhl.

The Autumn 2025 issue of The Dramatist Quarterly is devoted to the theme of courage, particularly in the face of censorship. This edition of the quarterly explores the importance of free speech, freedom of expression, and representation, with features including a roundtable with this year’s DLDF Defender award recipients moderated by Robert Schenkkan, an interview with Rhiana Yazzie

In the Summer 2025 edition of The Dramatist, Deborah Zoe Laufer moderates a roundtable of “Dramaturgs on Dramaturgy” with Julie Felise Dubiner, Jordan Ealey, Liz Engelman, Zachariah Ezer, and Gaven Trinidad.

In the Spring 2025 edition of The Dramatist, Christine Toy Johnson tells “A Tale of 3 Commissions,” Director of Business Affairs Jessica Lit breaks down the DG Model Commission Agreement, and Sandy Rustin embarks on “A Quest for Ikigai.” 

The Winter 2024 edition of The Dramatist is an adventure through our publications archive, beginning with “So Which Comes First, the Words or the Music?” by Sheldon Harnick from the Spring 1967 Dramatists Guild Quarterly.

The Autumn 2024 edition of The Dramatist focuses on the creation and development of new musicals, including Career articles “When Should I Give Someone a Co-Writing Credit?” and “Best Practices for Authorial Billing for Musicals & Opera.”