Offscript is American Theatre’s flagship podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts).
On this month’s episode, we talk to Pam MacKinnon, the Tony-winning director best known for the 2013 Broadway revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a series of plays by Bruce Norris, from Clybourne Park to Downstate. Pam, now in her last months as artistic director of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, has brought one of her last efforts there, Eisa Davis’s play ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||, to New York for a run at the Vineyard Theatre through June 21.
Then we speak to Isaac Butler, a critic and director and author whose new book, The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars, tells the story of the religious right’s war on pop culture and the National Endowment for the Arts.
This week’s recommendations: From Rob, Eleni Mandell’s new record, Tailspin; from Pam, Patrick Radden Keefe’s most recent book, London Falling; and from Isaac, two records featuring bass playing by Teddy Smith, Horace Silver’s Song for My Father and Kenny Dorham’s Matador.
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