Offscript – AMERICAN THEATRE

Offscript – AMERICAN THEATRE


Latest Episodes

Offscript: Michael R. Jackson & Anna K. Jacobs Write With Bite
March 11, 2024

On this episode, Rob talks to the writer-composer team about their new horror-comedy musical 'Teeth' and checks in with Bay Area critic David John Chávez.

Offscript: Kendeda at 20 With Tarell Alvin McCraney, Madhuri Shekar, and a.k. payne
February 21, 2024

On this episode, 3 playwrights discuss their development experience as past winners of the Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.

Offscript: Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury Feel the ‘Illinoise’
January 16, 2024

On this episode, the playwright and director-choreographer team discuss their new 'Illinoise' musical, and New Yorker critic Helen Shaw surveys the theatre festival lineup.

Offscript: Merry Y’allmark with Topher Payne
December 18, 2023

On this episode, Rob and J.R. talk to Topher Payne about Hallmark and holiday traditions, plus Kelundra interviews longtime critic Linda Armstrong.

Offscript: David Adjmi in Stereo and 3 Dimensions
November 17, 2023

The writer of 'Stereophonic' talks about his obsessions with detail and destruction, and North Carolina correspondent Lauren Van Hemert fills us in on the Research Triangle theatre scene.

Offscript: Heidi Schreck and Selina Fillinger, Women on Top
October 20, 2023

On this episode, Rob and Gabriela celebrate this season's most-produced plays and playwrights with surprise guests Heidi Schreck and Selina Fillinger.

Offscript: Pearl Cleage Speaks Her Truth
September 19, 2023

On this episode Kelundra and J.R. talk to the Atlanta playwright about Chicago's month-long celebration in her honor, the value of community-driven storytelling, and her new play 'Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard.'

Offscript: Revisiting the NICU with Mike Lew and Moritz von Stuelpnagel
August 15, 2023

On this episode we talk to playwright Mike Lew and director Moritz von Stuelpnagel about taking 'tiny father' from audio to audience and catch up with critic J. Wynn Rousuck about the Contemporary American Theater Festival.

Offscript: Searching for the Future
July 25, 2023

This month we host a special conversation about the search process that led NYC's Rattlestick Theatre to hire its new artistic director, Will Davis.

Offscript: Will Martyna Majok & Stephen Adly Guirgis Go to the Tonys?
June 11, 2023

On this special pre-Tony Awards edition, we talk to the playwrights nominated for 'Cost of Living' and 'Between Riverside and Crazy,' and to Playbill's Diep Tran.