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Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. When adapting his Tony-winning 2016 play The Humans for the screen, writer-director Stephen Karam believed a cinematic interpretation had the potential to offer an even…

Stephen Karam's 2016 Tony-winning play The Humans has been hailed by critics for holding a great mirror to New York City’s hard-scrabble inhabitants in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. However, the A24 film version, Karam’s feature directorial debut, arrives in theaters and on Showtime at an intriguing time…

Making films based on single-set stage plays has always posed the dilemma of whether to remain faithful to the text at the risk of visual tedium or "open it up" but perhaps lose intensity and focus in the process. Florian Zeller recently conquered the problem, and then some, with his bold visual approach to the film…

The 61st annual Obie Awards, established by the Village Voice to acknowledge achievement in off-Broadway theater, named Rajiv Joseph’s gripping drama with humor Guards at the Taj as the best new play of the season. Guards was presented by the Atlantic Theatre Company and the award includes a $1,000 prize to the…

After a justly celebrated off-Broadway run at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels, Stephen Karam‘s knockout drama The Humans has moved to Broadway, courtesy of everywhere-these-days producer Scott Rudin. A smart decision was made to hold on to the exquisitely matched acting ensemble and also the play’s, well…

Stephen Karam’s knockout drama The Humans, which opened off-Broadway this week to star-making reviews, will move to Broadway in the spring with its ensemble cast intact. The transfer, negotiated by producer Scott Rudin before the reviews had come out, adds one more play to a season that has more than the usual…

UPDATE Monday A.M.: Adds video clip. Earlier: It’s been eight years since the Roundabout Theatre Company launched both its postage-stamp size developmental space on West 46th Street and the career of an extraordinary playwright, with Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate, whose film adaptation wrapped a few weeks ago and is…