The lights come up on a bare stage. Two black South African actors, dressed in prison uniforms, mime shovelling sand into wheelbarrows in a quarry. As if perspiring profusely in the glaring noonday ...

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 precept doesn't hold in the case of playwright Athol ...

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going to be ...

South African playwright Athol Fugard has died. He wrote about life during and after apartheid in plays such as "Blood Knot" and "Master Harold... And The Boys." He was 92 years old. With more, here's ...

The fine Signature Theater revival of Athol Fugard’s 1969 play shows how a classic seemingly fixed in one era nevertheless keeps evolving. By Jesse Green Athol Fugard has directed his own masterwork ...