Exploring the craft, culture, and people of Off-Broadway theater.
Vol. II, Issue 2
In the November issue
“We, as theater practitioners, lose our way when we try to make the work look and feel like cinema. The way to sustain the art form is to reinvest in what makes it truly and purely theater.”
— Alex Bechtel
Georgie McKeon goes inside the Off-Broadway musical boom, featuring the upcoming Hole!, Penelope, Wild Rose, and more.
David Cote sits down with Richard Nelson ahead of We’ll See’s opening to discuss the “death” of nonprofit theater—and why he writes relationships, not characters.
Billy McEntee profiles Mona Pirnot, whose I Became We completes a remarkable “loose trilogy” of theater inspired by her life.
Kate Purdum examines the hottest accessory Off-Broadway: the in-ear monitor, which is making the truth inescapable in verbatim theater.
Howard Fishman on the rise and fall of Susan Glaspell and Eugene O’Neill’s creative partnership, amid revivals of The Verge and The Hairy Ape.
And Joey Sims spotlights theater company The Million Underscores, whose latest play commissioned 13 playwrights. Yes! Thirteen!
Spotlight
Vol. II, Issue 1
In the October issue
Tim Teeman on the incoming tide of political theater, featuring Lynn Nottage, Oskar Eustis, Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library by Jenny Lyn Bader, Dan Giles’s The Charioteer, Anne Washburn’s ANON with Crystal Finn, Max Wolf Friedlich’s The Holes, Laura Zlatos’s Show Trial, Katie Cappiello’s The Body of Mary, Women+ On the Edge of Democracy, Heidi Schreck, Steven Pasquale and Waiting for Lefty, and The Hairy Ape directed by Ciarán O’Reilly.
“For as long as we have been attacked, we have learned to hone our voices.”
— Lynn Nottage
Raven Snook on the return of celebrated spectacle Arias with a Twist created by Joey Arias and Basil Twist
Emma Rosa Went and Olivia Rose Barresi in deep conversation on Degenerates, Shakespeare, their creative inspirations, and more.
And Ethan Eva Karas profiles Off-Broadway’s in-demand dramaturg Sarah Lunnie.