Category: Interviews
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On The Associates’ “Redemption Story.” In Conversation with Peregrine Teng Heard and Sarah Blush
A few pages into the script of Peregrine Teng Heard’s– playwright and artistic director of The Associates Theater Ensemble– newest play Redemption Story, I could sense its implicit political message: institutions can be propelled forward by the people least represented by them. In the case of Heard’s play, that person is a post-career Asian-American actress…
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One Thing into Another: A Conversation with Alaina Ferris and Karinne Keithley Syers
Then Eamon yes-anded by saying, “By the way, I found this vibraphone on the street that I want to take apart.” So then we deconstructed the vibraphone.
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An Interview with Jesse Freedman on “The Banality of Evil” at The Brick
“Banality of Evil, as a phrase,” Jesse Freedman the Artistic Director of Meta-Phys Ed. told me on the phone last week, each of us speaking from our respective Brooklyn apartments, “is more popular than its source material. We spoke about his current show at The Brick Theater which opened on Thursday, March 21st. The…
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Gil-Sheridan & Weiss discuss THE SKETCHY EASTERN EUROPEAN SHOW
at the end of the day, the concept of “bastardizing your own culture to get ahead” is not a new one in this country – I’d just never seen it done within an Eastern European context
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The Uses of Obscurity | a conversation with Jerry Lieblich, Steve Mellor, and Meghan Finn
Jerry’s keen ear is tuned to productions of un-meaning—the kinds of nonsense, half-sense, and anti-sense that enable and mask violence, particularly violence committed in the names of patriotism and progress
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Dance Africa 2023! Zakiya Harris interviews Abdel R. Salaam
Hunter Dance MFA, Zakiya Harris interviews Abdel R. Salaam about Dance Africa 2023
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Lost in the Land of Fornesia
one of our designers said it was “strangely interesting” at our first run-through
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Intergenerational Vibing in Chicago Theater: Young Krones and A DRAMA IN ROGERS PARK
That’s the mission of Young Krones. That’s Krone advocacy.
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Five Questions with Lisa Clair & Shannon Sindelar
the female golem as child rang true to me as I questioned my own creative potential
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War Dreamers, War Nightmares
Stevens and Treadway gravitate towards original plays that, like WAR DREAMER, look at extreme human behavior and have an experimental edge
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Perkins & Borinsky | THE GOLD ROOM
Rehearsing it felt like having conversations with a ghost. Jacob from 4 years ago still has something to say to Jacob now. Jacob will always be becoming Jacob.
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Looking to a “Beautiful Future” with Rita Kalnejais
I’m interested in setting myself as big a challenge as I can when I’m writing, saying to myself, “How can I love you?”