The Stage Manager Takes the Stage
Ruth Sternberg spent 18 years as the backbone of the Public Theater. Now she's making her acting debut in the same building she helped run, in Ethan Lipton’s The Seat of Our Pants.
Twenty Years, 65 Plays, and the Man Who Won’t Let Shaw Fade Away
For two decades, Gingold Theatrical Group’s David Staller has championed George Bernard Shaw—and he’s convinced the playwright still has something to say in 2025.
By John DeVore
The Art of Collaboration
What makes a successful writer-director partnership? Writer Kate Douglas explores this essential question through conversations with long-term creative pairs, as well as her own work with director Kate Whoriskey.
Best Friends Forever?
Playwright Lia Romeo and director Katie Birenboim discuss their collaboration on The Lucky Ones, a play that tests the bonds of female friendship amid life, illness, and desire.
Douglas Lyons on Boldness, Craft, and Writing the World He Wants to Live In
As his new musical Beau launches its uptown run, the multi-hyphenate artist discusses daily habits, building community, and why artists need more than one creative fire burning.
In “Jewish Plot,” Torrey Townsend Resists a Tidy Narrative
The playwright’s shape-shifting new work uses an invented Victorian melodrama to excavate his grandfather's anti-fascist legacy—and confront his own identity.
Abby Wambaugh Knows How to Begin Again (and Again and Again)
In The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows, the comedian experiments with styles, props—and even the audience—to explore what it means to start over after loss.
The Play That Saw Fascism Coming
The Mint Theater, whose mission is to stage forgotten plays from the past, resurrects Sally Carson's Crooked Cross, a warning about the rise of fascism. Director Jonathan Bank and dramaturg Amy Stoller share their insights into Carson's work, the Mint's process, and the play's contemporary resonance.
Inside Off-Broadway’s Future
Fresh venues, small shows, big names. The industry is restless, inventive—and under pressure to prove why it matters now.
By Tim Teeman
In Praise of Intimacy
Composer-lyricist Adam Gwon traces the moments when theater collapses the distance between artist and audience, offering something private, urgent, and transformative.
Jen Tullock and the World She Left Behind
The Severance star draws from her Evangelical past in a daring solo play that confronts trauma, faith, and control.
Zoë Kim on Hunger, Love, and Making Art From Her Own Life
With her solo show Did You Eat? (밥 먹었니?) at the Public Theater, the actor-playwright turns personal history into a fearless exploration of family, identity, and community.