Offscript: Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury Feel the ‘Illinoise’
On this episode, the playwright and director-choreographer team discuss their new ‘Illinoise’ musical, and New Yorker critic Helen Shaw surveys the theatre festival lineup.
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On this episode, the playwright and director-choreographer team discuss their new ‘Illinoise’ musical, and New Yorker critic Helen Shaw surveys the theatre festival lineup.
On this episode, Rob and J.R. talk to Topher Payne about Hallmark and holiday traditions, plus Kelundra interviews longtime critic Linda Armstrong.
The writer of ‘Stereophonic’ talks about his obsessions with detail and destruction, and North Carolina correspondent Lauren Van Hemert fills us in on the Research Triangle theatre scene.
On this episode, Rob and Gabriela celebrate this season’s most-produced plays and playwrights with surprise guests Heidi Schreck and Selina Fillinger.
On this episode Kelundra and J.R. talk to the Atlanta playwright about Chicago’s month-long celebration in her honor, the value of community-driven storytelling, and her new play ‘Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard.’
On this episode we talk to playwright Mike Lew and director Moritz von Stuelpnagel about taking ‘tiny father’ from audio to audience and catch up with critic J. Wynn Rousuck about the Contemporary American Theater Festival.
This month we host a special conversation about the search process that led NYC’s Rattlestick Theatre to hire its new artistic director, Will Davis.
On this special pre-Tony Awards edition, we talk to the playwrights nominated for ‘Cost of Living’ and ‘Between Riverside and Crazy,’ and to Playbill’s Diep Tran.
We talk to writer/director/trickster Ty Defoe about directing ‘Rent’ for the next generation, building community ties, and moving beyond land acknowledgements. Plus: a check-in with Denver reporter John Moore.
A conversation with Joel Grey, Tovah Feldshuh, Caissie Levy, Michael Arden, and Bess Wohl about portrayals of Jewishness and antisemitism on New York stages.