Offscript: Live From Pittsburgh
This week, we share our live TCG conference session with arts journalist Sharon Eberson, City Theatre co-artistic director Monteze Freeland, and Quantum Theatre founder Karla Boos.
Offscript
Offscript is the official podcast of American Theatre, containing conversations with critics, playwrights and the editors of AT.
Released every other week, Offscript is a free-ranging discussion about the lively arts. Subscribe to Offscript via RSS, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or TuneIn.
Below is every episode of the Offscript podcast, plus show notes and links to the things that were discussed in each episode.
Offscript: Benjamin Benne’s Questions of Faith
This week we talk to the playwright of ‘Alma’ and ‘In His Hands’ about intimacy, religion, poetic realism, and Mario Kart.
Offscript: What We Talk About When We Talk About Abortion
This week the editors discuss theatre’s role in dispelling the fears and misconceptions surrounding abortion with Alison Leiby and Justice Hehir.
Offscript: Karen Hartman’s Triple Feature
For this episode we talk to playwright Karen Hartman, who currently has 3 plays making NYC premieres in 59E59’s first VOLT Festival.
Offscript: Tim Bond’s Healing Journey Through the American Century Cycle
This week our guest is TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s artistic director Tim Bond, now directing August Wilson’s ‘Gem of the Ocean’ there.
Offscript: Mixed Blood Is in Good Hands
On this episode, the editors talk to the founding artistic director of Mixed Blood Theatre, Jack Reuler, and his soon-to-be successor Mark Valdez about leadership, social justice, and the future of theatre.
Offscript: Mei Ann Teo Finds Strength in the Collective
On this episode the editors talk to the director of the drama ‘7 Minutes’ about labor, management, and new-play development .
Offscript: Eliana Pipes’s 3-Theatre ‘Dream Hou$e’
The editors speak to the playwright of ‘Dream Hou$e,’ a new play about gentrification, sisterhood, and reality TV, now onstage at Long Wharf Theatre.
Offscript: Chisa Hutchinson Is Paying Attention
The editors speak to the playwright of ‘Amerikin,’ a new play about white supremacy, now onstage Houston’s Alley Theatre after repeated pandemic delays.
Offscript: Jim Nicola’s Workshop Ethic
This week the editors talk to the artistic director of New York Theatre Workshop about his long and influential tenure there, which will end in June.
