The Subtext: Backstory and Foreshadowing
In this solo episode, Brian reflects on the podcast’s origins, frets about the future, and finds hope in an elder’s advice.
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Three on the Aisle: Side With Hope
The critics return to consider when theatre will return, how to cover it when it does, and how not to succumb to Zoom despair.
Three on the Aisle: Tamilla Woodard on Doing the Work
The critics talk to Tamilla Woodard, co-artistic director of Working Theater, about her experience of racism in the theatre and her recommendations of how to fight it.
Token Theatre Friends: The Future of Directing With Sammi Cannold
This pre-pandemic conversation with the exciting helmer behind ‘Endlings’ and radical stagings of ‘Ragtime’ and ‘Carmen’ holds hope for the art form.
The Subtext: E.M. Lewis’s Audio Diary
The award-winning playwright records the joys and challenges of daily life on a farm in rural Oregon during the pandemic lockdown.
Three on the Aisle: No Shortcut to Normal
The critics talk with Jeremy Wein of Play-PerView, take a question about theatre safety, and recommend shows they’ve viewed.
Three on the Aisle: Do Streams Come True?
This week the critics debate streamed and recorded theatre vs. live, and dip into the reader mailbag.
The Subtext: Excerpts From a Lost Spring
This month, an anthology of scenes and monologues from 15 plays whose premieres were cut short by COVID-19.
Three on the Aisle: Solving a Problem With Maria
The critics talk to Woolly Mammoth’s Maria Manuela Goyanes about theatre in the age of COVID-19, and discuss the relative merits of online theatre.
Three on the Aisle: Alone Together Edition
This week the critics sign in remotely to talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on theatre, and what they’re doing with no shows to see.