Category: Interviews
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Shaping The Moment Towards What it Seemed To Be Becoming: A Conversation with Eliya Smith on her Off-Broadway Debut GRIEF CAMP
Sitting down to work this afternoon, I selected to play my “On Repeat” playlist on Spotify: a selection of songs, continuously played, curated both by and for me. As […]
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THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE: A Conversation with Hallie Chametzky on Gertrude Stein and Nuanced Reckonings
I was sixteen in 2016, when Trump was elected for the first time. I went to the March for Our Lives in Boston. I fastened witty political buttons to my […]
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Conjuring a World of Complex Williamsian Women: A Conversation with Co-Artistic Director of The Fire Weeds, Jaclyn Bethany
As a playwright, there’s something very special about an early draft – unedited and raw, a jumble of ideas that tumble out in the most honest and immediate way. There’s […]
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On Formulating of a Dance Ecosystem: A Conversation Taylor Schmuelgen and Kayla White, producers of THAT SHOW
When I moved to New York in 2022, I was twenty-two, and I wanted to make dances. I knew a lot of artists my age and was lucky to have […]
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“He resists the very tempting urge to wink”
Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with Mona Pirnot on I’M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN, her Meta Masterpiece at The Atlantic Theater.
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Who’s Your Leader? Kelly Bartnik on The Death of Rasputin and Why Everything Might Be a Cult
Spring is in the air and, amidst the horrors, new productions abound! I caught up with Kelly Bartnik of Artemis is Burning to discuss upcoming previews for The Death of […]
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On Rhythmic Utterances, The Catharsis of Musicality, and Destabilizing Interactions: A Conversation with Playwright Abe Koogler
When Deep Blue Sound announced its residence at The Public Theater, the playwrights in my MFA program were thrilled. Their response gave me an inkling as to what kind of […]
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An Archive on Floppy Disks: A Conversation with Jennifer Ashley Tepper of THE JONATHAN LARSON PROJECT
The musical Rent plays an important role not only in the history of American musical theatre, but also in the lives, hearts, and minds of that special class of earnest […]
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In Conversation with I’M REPEATING MYSELF Playwright Chad Kaydo
Kaydo knows that theatre is the perfect medium to reflect impermanence, and the specter of death is inside every breath of this play–but Kaydo has a light touch. He lets us listen and find the echoes and connections ourselves.
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“hope organ” takes on politicizing shame and dance synesthesia
Which I think says something meaningful about fantasy; materials become less messy and people become more one-dimensional and places become infinitely reachable and the perfect temperature in our minds.
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“There’s nothing like a fertile misremembrance”: A Conversation with Jerry Lieblich and Paul Lazar on The Barbarians at La MaMa
When I scheduled my interview with Jerry Lieblich and Paul Lazar—in preparation for the latest run of The Barbarians, Jerry Lieblich’s unfurling meditation on rhetoric and power (and the power […]
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A Very Serious Unserious Dance and Some Rigorous Instructions for (Queer) Joy?
Theo Armstrong describes some cool moves and asks Noa Rui-Piin Weiss and Miranda Brown some silly yet probing questions after seeing !!simon says~~!:));)$$ Presented as part of the Out-FRONT! Festival […]