Manufact raises $6.3M to help developers connect AI agents with Model Context Protocol

Manufact Inc., formerly mcp-use, an infrastructure platform developing the next generation of artificial intelligence agents ...

Playwright Tracy Letts on reviving ‘Bug’ on Broadway and putting ‘Midwest pragmatism’ on stage

Letts’ wife, Carrie Coon, stars in the critically acclaimed revival. Of her reprisal of a role she portrayed at Steppenwolf in 2021, Letts says: “She’s fearless.” ...

Review: ‘Mountaintop’ in Oakland relies on warts-and-all look at MLK Jr.

Katori Hall’s controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.’s final night gets a superb production by Oakland Theater Project ...
The Christian Science Monitor

AI can write songs, plays, and novels. What does that mean for human creativity?

The age of AI-generated music and AI-aided fiction has arrived. Will “canned” art push musicians, writers, and others out of jobs?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta playwright Lee Osorio brings ‘Prisontown’ into living rooms

Osorio is the writer and sole performer in “Prisontown,” a one-act play about a writer who works to uncover the harsh ...
Texas Public Radio

With virtual characters in real life, 'An Ark' experiments with mixed-reality performance

A new play, "An Ark", is one of the first to be created and produced for mixed reality. It recently opened in New York, but does the play herald the future of theater?