New York

Ralph Peña, Producing Artistic Director of Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York City and playwrights-in-residence Rehana Lew Mirza and Mike Lew discuss their participation in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program.

Bertie Ferdman chats with New Saloon Theater Co. about their recent production, MINOR CHARACTER: Six Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York.

Ricky Young-Howze talks with actor Ali Stroker about changing people’s perceptions about performers with disabilities.

Catherine M. Young reflects on the closing of the musical Shuffle Along. 

David Levy discusses Noah Diamond’s adaptation and revival of I’ll Say She Is, the musical debut of the Marx Brothers. 

Jonathan Mandell looks at the new production of Runaways, thirty-eight years after the first, and asks: Should a work of theatre allow us to escape from, or force us to engage in, the world?

Carlos Morton questions whether Hamilton should be considered a piece of Latina/o theatre.

Manuel Betancourt on the Young Vic’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

Ramesh Meyyappan and Gavin Glover discuss their wordless adaptation of Madame Butterfly, replete with kites and puppets, and their hopes for hyphenate theatremakers.

Marcina Zaccaria discusses Rolando Sanz’s role in producing and presenting the opera I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk by Andrew Lippa.

Amy Brady interviews Shaun Neblett about hip-hop inspired theatre, Black Lives Matter, and getting young audiences excited about theatre.

Judith Jerome discusses the recent Broadway production of Blackbird by David Harrower.

Sara Zweig on The Robber Bridegroom with book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry, and music by Robert Waldman at The Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.

In the kick-off to this new series, Christopher Diercksen, Artistic Director of Team Awesome Robot, share’s the company’s process for producing their second show. 

Jonathan Mandell on the recent spate of sung through musicals, including Hadestown, The Total Bent, Evening 1910, and Hamilton.

Actress/Playwright Romana Soutus shares her process and experience performing her solo show Hyena.

Sarah Matusek on the New York City production of This Time by Sevan K. Greene, adapted from the memoir Not So Long Ago by Amal Meguid, directed by Kareem Fahmy.

Corey Ruzicano interviews performance artist Diana Oh, the first in a series of interviews with artists and the battles they chose to fight.

Playwright Kathleen Warnock reports on WOW Café Theatre’s reunion and book launch for Memories of the Revolution, which chronicles the first ten years of WOW Café.