How to Write a Wild, Weird, and Intricate Anne Washburn Play
How did King Lear end up in a play about QAnon? Washburn talks about Anon at MCC Theater, writing by instinct, and why a perfect play is impossible.
Eliya Smith Gets Outside Herself
In one busy year, the playwright has gone from the summer hit Dad Don’t Read This to Biography in Maine to Two Girls, now at Cherry Lane. Smith talks about verbatim theater, rural audiences, and the infamous viral video that inspired the play.
Emma Rosa Went and Olivia Rose Barresi on Collaborating Across 40 Projects
The director and star of Degenerates dive into the joys of Shakespeare, “virtuosic stupidity,” and being deadly serious about their craft.
While Powerful Institutions Play It Safe, Off-Broadway Gets Political
As the midterm elections approach, Tim Teeman talks to Lynn Nottage, Heidi Schreck, Oskar Eustis and more about democracy, authoritarianism, resistance—and what a play can actually accomplish.
The Art of Paying Attention with Sarah Lunnie
The dramaturg trusted by some of theater’s most prolific artists on curiosity, collaboration—and helping writers discover what their plays want to become.
Joey Arias and Basil Twist Do the Time Warp
Arias With a Twist is back in the theater where it debuted in 2008. Raven Snook speaks with the creators about bringing their puppet-and-song extravaganza out of storage and back to HERE Arts Center.
Emilio Madrid Never Stops Moving
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.
Voir Dire: On the Civic Position of Queer Artists
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.
How Clubbed Thumb “Moves Fast and Builds Things” for Summer’s Strangest Party
After three decades of producing must-see downtown plays, artistic director Maria Striar continues leaning into new work that defies categorization.
John J. Caswell, Jr. and Dustin Wills Dig Into “Jerome”
Ahead of their Playwrights Horizons run, the playwright and director discuss older queer desire, Arizona ghost towns, and building a play through previews.
How Do You Adapt a Thousand-Page Encyclopedia of Sadness?
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.
Thornton Wilder’s Unfinished Play About Choosing a Life in the Arts
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.
Why Is Everyone Coughing at “What We Did Before Our Moth Days”?
At Wallace Shawn’s new play, audiences seem seized by an uncanny urge to make themselves heard. What would Freud say?
“Canciones” and the Songs We Take with Us
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.
“Beauty Freak” Gets Political in a Time of Numbness
In its unsparing portrayal of director and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, the new production by What Will the Neighbors Say? shines a spotlight on our own growing dissociation from everyday horrors, and asks: What is the role of the artist in politics today?
“The Bad Daters” Searches for Connection at Paradise Factory
Director Colm Summers and playwright Derek Murphy on Irish humor, self-harm, and staging an unconventional love story.
At Rise: Bubba Weiler and Jack Serio, Before First Rehearsal
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.
BAM and the National Theatre Are Betting on Each Other — and on “Hamlet”
A new partnership links Brooklyn and London, as both institutions look to stabilize, find new audiences, and expand the transatlantic pipeline.
What Theater Can Learn from Game Design
From immersive performances to chocolate-pudding city planning, game design is reshaping how audiences participate in theater. How far can it go?
What Bedlam Sees in “Othello” Right Now
A four-actor production led by Eric Tucker and Ryan Quinn leans into race, love — and reconsiders what Shakespeare’s tragedy asks of an audience in 2026.