The Subtext: Jonathan Payne and the Sea of Stories
This month Brian speaks with the playwright about striving to write one play a year and drawing inspiration from various roles and identities.
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Theatrical Mustang: Jinkx, DeLa, and the Holiday Queendom
In this month’s Christmas-Halloween mashup, Woodzick chats with two drag icons about their seventh annual holiday show, as well as Seattle-based playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard about horror and true crime-inspired projects.
A Song That Old Was Sung
This month, Gabriela describes visceral reactions to Chicago stages, Jerald highlights Steppenwolf, plus we get a Halloween preview from two local costume designers.
How to Survive an Election: Laugh With ‘POTUS’
Selina Fillinger’s popular farce about women taking control of the White House hits different this fall.
Offscript: Chicago Shakes With the World
In this month’s Offscript, we hear from three leaders who bring the world together through Shakespeare and new work. Plus, we learn about a new generative arts journalism fellowship.
The Sound of Hysteria
Deaf and hearing artists are looking for the timeless rage in a new staging of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot,’ a collaboration between Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group.
The Subtext: Rachel Jendrzejewski on Presence, Poland, and Padua
This month Brian speaks with the Playwrights’ Center core writer and co-artistic director of Minneapolis’s Red Eye about chance encounters and her relationship to future thinking.
Offscript: Most-Produced With Heidi Shreck, Rajiv Joseph, and Kate Hamill
On this episode we broke the news of which plays and playwrights will be the most produced this season. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and some most-produced playwrights on new play development.
A Space Between Abundance and Loss
This month we recap a fast-paced, eventful month and get to hear from visionaries Miranda González and Raquel Torre.
Voces y Votos
With apt new comedies programmed around election seasons, theatre companies have been complicating audience notions of the Latine vote and community.
