As director Brad Raimondo notes at the top of this interview, there are stories from history that just seem to stick with you. It was because the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914 wouldn’t leave him or playwright Ricardo Pérez … Continue reading →

Remember O. Henry’s lovely tale The Gift of the Magi, about the poor young couple at Christmastime, who each sacrifice their most precious possession to buy something special for the other’s most precious possession, so in the end they’re both left … Continue reading →

In case the title, coupled with the poster art to the left, doesn’t make it obvious enough, Twelve Nights is Sean Graney’s adaptation of Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, set in the 1980s. Gimmick? If you’re cynical, I suppose. Awesome? Indisputably, hell yeah. … Continue reading →

Some things just go great together. Turkey & stuffing. Pumpkin pie & whipped cream. Calvin & Hobbes. Add to that list the theatre companies Gideon & Ground UP, who have teamed up to present Mac Rogers‘s Asymmetric at 59E59. Listen in … Continue reading →

Maine to Florida is a long way to drive in a tan Toyota Corolla. And who knows what kind of people you might run into along the way—like light-worshipping cultists, overly-emotional poets, highway-trotting serial killers, hunch-less detectives, Edgar Allen Poe … Continue reading →

How are we transformed by the death of a loved one? And, what is left behind? Those questions seem to be at the heart of Cody Daigle‘s play In the Bones, in which a family navigates the aftermath of a young … Continue reading →

Chances are, you’re like me—you won’t immediately recognize the name Raymond Scott, but once you realize who he was, you also realize you’ve had his music stuck in your head at some point in time. Maybe even many points in time. Director Jon … Continue reading →

Baseball. War. Strippers. Distilled Theatre Company‘s resident playwright Tyler Grimes locates the cross-points of these disparate elements of Americana in his new play Stripped, presented by Distilled & directed by Victoria Flores. Listen in as Tyler, Victoria, Christian, and Chloé discuss … Continue reading →

As promised two episodes back, GSAS! continues the seasonally-appropriate fare with another conversation with the vocal acrobats behind RadioTheatre‘s 6th Annual H. P. Lovecraft Festival. Back on the mic are the excellent R. Patrick Alberty & Joshua Nicholson, along with … Continue reading →

The Assembly was last on the podcast with an episode that, sadly, went live long after the show had closed (and damn, you should have seen that show…Home/Sick remains one of the best productions I’ve seen—take a listen to the episode about … Continue reading →