José Rivera: Mystery, Awe, and the Long Apprenticeship
This month Brian talks to the prolific playwright and screenwriter about religion, working-class heroes, and how he learned he’s not an actor from Tom Hanks.
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.
Joseph’s Big Swings at the Guthrie
What has he learned after leading Minneapolis’s flagship theatre for the last 11 years, and what’s next? Plus: a Pittsburgh check-in with Sharon Eberson.
Dave Osmundsen Doesn’t Do Inspiration
This month Brian talks to the author of ‘Light Switch’ and ‘Berrywild’ about autism, mentorship, and learning to live alongside cringe.
Live From Puerto Rico: A Look Into Theatre’s Mirror
In a conversation recorded at the TCG Conference in San Juan in June, writer Miranda Purcell is joined by Puerto Rican theatremakers Sylvia Bofill and Georgina Borri.
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.
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.
