Andrea Stolowitz: I Am My Own Home
This month, Brian talks to Andrea Stolowitz, a playwright and librettist with dual U.S./German citizenship who talks about her complex relationship with home.
Category Archives: Audio
American Theatre‘s podcasts feature timely and timeless conversations and interviews in and about the theatre field.
Offscript
This occasional podcast features the editors of American Theatre in conversation with each other and with special guests.
The Subtext
A podcast where playwrights talk to playwrights about the things usually left unsaid: what irks, agitates, motivates, inspires, and makes writers tick. Brian James Polak hosts. Guests have included David Adjmi, Antoinette Nwandu, Jen Silverman, Will Arbery, Korde Arrington Tuttle, Clare Barron, Chisa Hutchinson, Rebecca Gilman, Isaac Gomez, Ike Holter, and many more.
Pam MacKinnon on ACT, Isaac Butler on the NEA
ACT’s outgoing artistic director talks about the joys and challenges of an artistic home, and an author/critic explains how yesterday’s culture wars paved the way for today’s.
Lisa Sanaye Dring Builds Mind Palaces
The playwright and director from Hawaii and Nevada discusses ‘Death Play,’ ‘Sumo,’ yearning, loneliness, and the wisdom of accepting loss.
Cedric the Entertainer Finds His Song, ‘Lost Boys’ Raises the Stakes
The comic actor talks about his role in August Wilson’s ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,’ director Michael Arden and designer Dane Laffrey talk vampire musicals, and Gemma Wilson gives us the Seattle 411.
Patrick Gabridge Plays in Place
The playwright and founding artistic director of a site-specific theatre discusses going from studying computer science at MIT to honing in on his artistry.
Criticism as Theatre, and Willem Dafoe’s Visceral Venice
This month Willem Dafoe tells us about his programming for the Venice Teatro Biennale, and critics Helen Shaw and Emily Nussbaum compare notes on their new posts.
Sophie McIntosh: Good Apples and Aspirations
The playwright, originally from Wisconsin, discusses her company, influences, exposure therapy, and the challenges of being an ’emerging’ artist.
Bodily Fluids, Heartsick Lyrics, and a Viral Musical
This month: Alia Shawkat on Clare Barron’s ‘You Got Older,’ Robert Kaplow on his Oscar-nominated screenplay for ‘Blue Moon,’ and Joriah Kwamé on his TikTok-hit-turned-musical, ‘Little Miss Perfect.’
Ken Urban Makes Music and Meaning
The playwright, screenwriter, and musician talks about juggling various projects, how to manage the emotional ups and downs in an unpredictable career path, and the value of teaching.
Katie Holmes’s ‘Hedda,’ Savion Glover on ‘Chez Joey,’ and Theatre Training
On this jam-packed episode, we talk to the star and director of ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Old Globe, the writer and co-director of a new take on ‘Pal Joey’ at Arena Stage, and the writer of a key story in our new training issue.
