This month Brian speaks with the playwright, a recipient of an Apollo Theater new work commission, about how his experiences as as a social worker, student, actor, playwright, husband, and father have informed one another.

In this month’s Christmas-Halloween mashup, Woodzick chats with drag icons Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme about their seventh annual holiday show, as well as Seattle-based playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard about horror and true crime-inspired projects.

This month, Gabriela discusses international collaborations with Edward Hall, Tamara Harvey, and Jorge Valdivia, in the midst of an expansive Chicago Shakes season. Later, Rob speaks with Christie Snyder about Critical Insight, a new partnership between AT and Pittsburgh Public Theater.

This month Brian speaks with interdisciplinary artist and writer Rachel Jendrzejewski, a Playwrights' Center core writer and co-artistic director of Red Eye in Minneapolis, about happenstance encounters that fueled her playwriting career and how a diagnosis changed her relationship with future thinking.

On this episode we broke the news of which plays will be the most produced this season. Heidi Shreck's What the Constitution Means to Me will be the most-produced title of the season, and playwrights Kate Hamill and Rajiv Joseph tied for most-produced playwrights. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and these great playwrights on hopes for new work development.

This month Woodzick and musician and artist Sandy Sahar Gooen dream of gender-expansive revivals, from trans Assassins, to Follies "but sapphic." Together they "nerd out" on musical parody, queer and trans storytelling, and inclusive vocal pedagogy

This month, the editors talk with the acclaimed actor about modernized classics, language, and how "Oppenheimer" led him back to the stage

This month Brian talks to the acclaimed actor about the ups and downs of her career, why and how she wrote her first play, and whether she feels she can claim the title 'playwright'

This month Woodzick talks to the Chicago actor about their wide-ranging résumé, roles they'd still like to play, and a death-grip-defying audition 

This month we talk to the writers of 'N/A' and 'The Ask,' 2 new plays about intergenerational conflict and common ground among liberals and progressives