Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts).

This month, editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt and digital editor Gabriela Furtado Coutinho talk in depth about our new Fall season preview edition, drawing out this issue’s theme of learning from past struggles to face the challenges of the present with writer Dezi Tibbs, who wrote our beautiful cover story about mentorship among generations of trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming artists. Then we speak to actor-playwright John Leguizamo about The Other Americans, his new multi-actor play at the Public Theater.

Guests’ recommendations: Dezi Tibbs praised a recent Justin Vivian Bond-curated Joe’s Pub appearance by trans artist Garnet Williams, and John Leguizamo extoled the Latin R&B of fellow Colombian American Kali Uchis.

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