Vivienne Benesch Is Looking for Transformation
As the new artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, she is focusing on new plays, diversity, community, and the future.
Category Archives: Interviews
Jennifer Bielstein on Her Actors Theatre Legacy and What’s Next at the Guthrie
The managing director of the Louisville theatre talks about what she’s learned and where she’s going in Minneapolis.
I Need You, I Hate You: Rainn Wilson Plays With the Audience in ‘Thom Pain’
The ‘Office’ star has wanted to tackle Will Eno’s breakthrough monologue for a decade, and Geffen Playhouse had an open slot. Is he ready to get shouted at?
Sandra Tsing Loh Stages a Midlife Crisis in ‘The Madwoman in the Volvo’
She may have hoped to write a comfy play about the vagaries of menopause and after, but, in her art as in her life, she couldn’t take the easy way.
What Will Steven Leigh Morris Do at LA Stage Alliance? A Critical Q&A
The longtime theatre writer for the LA Weekly and Stage Raw was already a local theatre leader; his new job just makes it official.
Cynthia Nixon’s Second Career
The Tony-winning actress and ‘Sex and the City’ star discusses her second directing project, ‘Steve’ at the New Group.
What Is a Science Fiction Play Anyway?
Christina Anderson, Madeline George, and Mac Rogers discuss how they put science in their fiction, pulp in their living-room drama, and speculation in their history.
Gavin MacLeod Shows Up for ‘Happy Hour’
The veteran TV actor returns to the stage for a new play about aging. And though the theatre’s in the California desert, there’s a cruise ship connection, natch.
Radical Vision and Form: A Conversation With Naomi Wallace
For the author of ‘One Flea Spare’ and ‘Night Is a Room,’ the why of playwriting is vastly more important than the how. Still, she has some pointers about both.
Ali Stroker Is Checking Off Her List, One Dream at a Time
As the first wheelchair-using performer ever cast on Broadway, Stroker isn’t just realizing a dream; she’s making it possible for others like her to dream, as well.
