Katori Hall and Erika Dickerson-Despenza: Crafting Their Narratives
The 2 playwrights talk about what’s been lost to the pandemic and look to a future in which Black stories are the default, not the exception.
Category Archives: Interviews
Tim Bond: Best-Laid Plans
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s new artistic director tries to balance with nimbleness with caution as he looks toward an uncertain future.
Austin Pendleton: Remember to Look Up
With ‘The Minutes’ on hold, Pendleton is passing time with ‘The American Clock’ and Zoom scene study classes.
Daniel Banks: Troubling the ‘Single Story’
The director and co-founder of DNAWORKS has made it his life’s work to be fully present in the complexity and plurality of life.
Chay Yew: Break the Table and Build a New One
After 9 years at Victory Gardens, the writer/director reflects on what he’s learned from running, and fighting for, a theatre in Chicago.
Tom Key: A Spiritual Connection
After 25 years at the helm of Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit, Key is ready for his next act.
Loretta Greco Still Has Magic to Do
The outgoing artistic director made San Francisco’s Magic Theatre an artistic home for all.
Sarah Silverman’s Musical Theatre Debut Will Have to Wait
Though her musical of ‘The Bedwetter’ has been postponed, the standup’s stage appetite has clearly been whetted.
Jesse Berger: Being Jacobean
His Red Bull Theater puts its emphasis on the language in both its core texts and beyond.
André Gregory: ‘The Creative Process Is Very Mysterious’
The legendary director has had a Zelig-like journey through the culture, from regional theatre to Hollywood, Strasberg to Grotowski.
