Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts), in which the magazine’s editors, writers, and special guests tell us what they’re up to and what’s on their mind.

This month editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt speaks to playwright Mfoniso Udofia and director Awoye Timpo about The Grove, the newest in Udofia’s unfolding cycle of nine plays about a Nigerian American family that are rolling out over the next few years at Boston area theatres in a citywide festival dubbed The Ufot Cycle. Udofia and Timpo talk about the play’s autobiographical origins and magic-realist elements, and address the significance of telling an immigrant story in the U.S. at this fraught moment.

Also, Gabriela Furtado Coutinho checks in with New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips about how she writes—and how she decides what to write about. (One show she raves about is David Adjmi’s Stereophonic, which you can pre-order now from TCG Books.)

You can download the episode here. If you have any feedback or suggestions for Offscript, please reach out to at@tcg.org.