All About My Mother: The Parent Trap of ‘Rheology’
Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s new play at the Bushwick Starr isn’t just about his mother, the physicist Bulbul Chakraborty. She’s also his co-star.
All Stories About The Bushwick Starr
The Subtext: Jonathan Payne and the Sea of Stories
This month Brian speaks with the playwright about striving to write one play a year and drawing inspiration from various roles and identities.
Not Always a Punchline: Ryan J. Haddad’s ‘Dark Disabled Stories’
In his latest play, published in full in our Fall print edition, the writer/performer probes implicit ableism and the assumptions we make about people we’ll never really know.
Jeremy O. Harris and the Bushwick Starr Announce Pet Project Grant
A total of $76,000 from licensing fees and publishing royalties of ‘Slave Play’ will be randomly awarded to 152 writers.
A Climate of Change
Theatremakers may be uniquely qualified to lead the way to a regenerative culture of climate justice.
Off-Off-Broadway: Freedom Isn’t Free
The work at New York City’s small indie theatres may be blessedly strange, but the challenges they face are all too familiar.
The Real Malloy
The composer behind ‘Great Comet’ and ‘Ghost Quartet’ makes music into theatre, and vice versa.
Move Over Manhattan, Here Comes Brooklyn’s Exponential Festival
In the newest addition to NYC’s January festivals, Theresa Buchheister curates a selection of homegrown experimental work.
Amid a Gentrifying Tide, the Bushwick Starr Launches ‘Yoleros’
Modesto Flako Jimenez and Brooklyn Gypsies offer the theatre’s first Spanish-language play, a drama about forced migration.
For Sherrine Azab and Jake Hooker, Home Is Where the Hosts Are
Formative collaborative experiences in Brooklyn and Berlin inform this couple’s work with the Detroit-based company A Host of People.
