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In the June issue

Clubbed Thumb and Maria Striar continue making strange magic downtown by David Cote

Playwright Else Went considers the responsibility of queer artists today

An interview with John J. Caswell, Jr. and Dustin Wills on Jerome by Billy McEntee

And photographer Emilio Madrid makes everyone look good by Georgie McKeon

Articles
Feature
David Cote
How Clubbed Thumb “Moves Fast and Builds Things” for Summer’s Strangest Party
Feature
David Cote

After three decades of producing must-see downtown plays, artistic director Maria Striar continues leaning into new work that defies categorization.

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David Cote
Articles
John J. Caswell, Jr. and Dustin Wills Dig Into “Jerome”
Interview
Billy McEntee
John J. Caswell, Jr. and Dustin Wills Dig Into “Jerome”
Interview
Billy McEntee

Ahead of their Playwrights Horizons run, the playwright and director discuss older queer desire, Arizona ghost towns, and building a play through previews.

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Interview
Billy McEntee
Articles
Voir Dire: On the Civic Position of Queer Artists
Essay
Else Went
Voir Dire: On the Civic Position of Queer Artists
Essay
Else Went

What do we owe a democracy that often isn’t sure about us? Moving between a jury summons and a reading of The Normal Heart, playwright Else Went reflects on certainty, compromise, and belonging.

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Else Went
Articles
Profile
Georgie McKeon
Emilio Madrid Never Stops Moving
Profile
Georgie McKeon

The photographer behind some of theater’s most recognizable images discusses building a business, earning actors’ trust, and shooting eleven subjects in a single day.

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Profile
Georgie McKeon

The Spotlight

Articles
How Do You Adapt a Thousand-Page Encyclopedia of Sadness?
Spotlight
Douglas Corzine
How Do You Adapt a Thousand-Page Encyclopedia of Sadness?
Spotlight
Douglas Corzine

Leo Egger and Charlie Mayhew of the Eno River Players discuss turning Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy into a wry Off-Off-Broadway meditation on grief, history, and surprisingly modern anxieties.

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Spotlight
Douglas Corzine
Articles
Thornton Wilder’s Unfinished Play About Choosing a Life in the Arts
Spotlight
Shoshana Greenberg
Thornton Wilder’s Unfinished Play About Choosing a Life in the Arts
Spotlight
Shoshana Greenberg

Playwright Kirk Lynn spent years inside Wilder’s journals, drafts, and notes to bring The Emporium to the stage. But he left one crucial decision up to the audience.

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Spotlight
Shoshana Greenberg
Articles
Why Is Everyone Coughing at “What We Did Before Our Moth Days”?
Spotlight
Nora Logan
Why Is Everyone Coughing at “What We Did Before Our Moth Days”?
Spotlight
Nora Logan

At Wallace Shawn’s new play, audiences seem seized by an uncanny urge to make themselves heard. What would Freud say?

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Nora Logan
Articles
“Canciones” and the Songs We Take with Us
Spotlight
Ana María Betancourt Ovalle
“Canciones” and the Songs We Take with Us
Spotlight
Ana María Betancourt Ovalle

In an immersive mariachi performance in a Flatbush apartment, a Mexican family wrestles with a fear shared by immigrants everywhere: that leaving home may mean leaving yourself behind.

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Ana María Betancourt Ovalle

In the May issue

Playwright Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio on the return of Well, I’ll Let You Go

BAM and the National Theatre are betting on Hamlet — and a new partnership

What theater can learn from game design

And the dark Irish rom-com The Bad Daters comes to Paradise Factory

Articles
Feature
Jen Gushue
BAM and the National Theatre Are Betting on Each Other — and on “Hamlet”
Feature
Jen Gushue

A new partnership links Brooklyn and London, as both institutions look to stabilize, find new audiences, and expand the transatlantic pipeline.

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Feature
Jen Gushue
Articles
At Rise: Bubba Weiler and Jack Serio, Before First Rehearsal
Interview
Bubba Weiler
At Rise: Bubba Weiler and Jack Serio, Before First Rehearsal
Interview
Bubba Weiler

Over a diner breakfast, the writer and director of Well, I'll Let You Go talk catharsis, their love of Our Town, and plays that make you want to call your parents. 

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Interview
Bubba Weiler
Articles
What Theater Can Learn from Game Design
Essay
Jisoo Hope Yoon
What Theater Can Learn from Game Design
Essay
Jisoo Hope Yoon

From immersive performances to chocolate-pudding city planning, game design is reshaping how audiences participate in theater. How far can it go?

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Essay
Jisoo Hope Yoon
Articles
Profile
Jude Cramer
“The Bad Daters” Searches for Connection at Paradise Factory
Profile
Jude Cramer

Director Colm Summers and playwright Derek Murphy on Irish humor, self-harm, and staging an unconventional love story.

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Jude Cramer