Everybody gets frustrated when web apps are broken, but testing them thoroughly doesn't need to be a chore. Playwright, a new open-source browser automation tool from Microsoft, makes testing web apps ...

Minecraft Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...

Lila Raicek has always been preoccupied with desire and adultery. In her plays and TV scripts, characters lie, cheat and speculate about other people’s sex lives. “My Master Builder,” a moody ...

His play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean famously starred future Oscar winner Kathy Bates and international superstar Cher. Playwright Edward Graczyk passed away February 11 ...

Jessie Jones, a theater playwright and TV actress known for roles on "Murphy Brown" and "Perfect Strangers," has died. She was 75. Jones' writing partner Jamie Wooten – who with Nicholas Hope formed ...

The recipients of the 2025 Steinberg Playwright Awards (the “Mimi” Awards), presented by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, are Christopher Chen and Zora Howard. The $100,000 award is ...

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...

After a few false starts trying to dive into the play, I found a deeply satisfying solution: I retyped the play in its entirety: not just reading it passively and taking notes, but actually writing ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...