Exploring the craft, culture, and people of Off-Broadway theater

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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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

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

The April issue

How Mexodus is building a musical for the future

Four playwrights break open their calendars and reveal how (and when) they write

An interview with Milo Cramer on No Singing in the Navy

And Jade Jones takes the spotlight in Bigfoot!

Articles
Feature
Douglas Corzine
How “Mexodus” Is Building a Musical for the Future
Feature
Douglas Corzine

Brian Quijada, Nygel D. Robinson, and director David Mendizábal are treating theater as something to pass on — across cities, platforms, and audiences.

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Douglas Corzine
Articles
How Playwrights Spend Their Time
Essay
Mallory Jane Weiss
How Playwrights Spend Their Time
Essay
Mallory Jane Weiss

Four writers tracked a week of writing, teaching, procrastinating, and trying to make art fit inside ordinary days.

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Essay
Mallory Jane Weiss
Articles
Milo Cramer on Getting Swept Away with “No Singing in the Navy”
Interview
Georgie McKeon
Milo Cramer on Getting Swept Away with “No Singing in the Navy”
Interview
Georgie McKeon

The playwright talks sailor archetypes, existential despair, and why musical theater can be both ridiculous and profound.

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Interview
Georgie McKeon
Articles
Profile
Dezi Tibbs
Jade Jones Plays by Their Own Rules in “Bigfoot!”
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Dezi Tibbs

After a viral Belle and regional acclaim, the performer brings comedy, swagger, and gender-expansive freedom to New York City Center.

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Dezi Tibbs