Julia Jarcho Appointed Head of MFA Playwriting at Brown
The downtown playwright and theatremaker talks about her aesthetic and DIY work ethic, and how much of each she’ll bring to her new post.
Category Archives: Interviews
Ken Ludwig’s Love Letter to His Pen-Pal Parents
The comic playwright’s new play ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ is based on his parents’ WWII courtship by mail.
Meghan Pressman: In With the New
The first woman to manage the $55 million Center Theatre Group offers tips on how to raise money for innovation.
Fefu’s Friends, Old and New
Artists behind the 1977 premiere of María Irene Fornés’s groundbreaking play compare notes with artists from a new revival.
In ‘For Colored Girls….’, Adrienne C. Moore Has Come Full Circle
The ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actress, who once used a Ntozake Shange monologue as her go-to audition piece, is now starring in the Public Theater revival.
André De Shields, Theatre God
The Broadway veteran, still kicking in ‘Hadestown,’ has blazed a path so that others may follow.
Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.: Vision and Mission
The co-founding leader of Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble prepares to take the helm of the similarly community-minded HartBeat Ensemble in Connecticut.
Regina Victor: Critiquing With Love
Armed with the idea that truth-telling and empathy don’t have to be mutually exclusive, they founded Rescripted, an independent Chicago theatre publication.
Tim Sanford: Not Averse to Being Perverse
Playwrights Horizons’s outgoing artistic director has always programmed the plays he’d like to see, and sometimes plays his subscribers don’t.
Mary-Louise Parker: Finding ‘The Sound Inside’
Though Broadway has pulled her back for Adam Rapp’s ‘The Sound Inside’ and Paula Vogel’s ‘How I Learned to Drive,’ she’s thinking of quitting the stage.
