Onstage/Offstage

Episode #116 of Onstage/Offstage: This month we reach clear around the world to beautiful Melbourne and delve deep into all things dramaturgical with dramaturg Mark Pritchard. Before we ever get to see the curtain rise, there's so much work that goes into the text.

Episode #115 of Onstage/Offstage: Having one play take you around the world for four years is pretty neat. Michael Burgos' hit play, "The Eulogy" has done just that.

Episode #114 of Onstage/Offstage: We talk about whether cisgender playwrights can or should include transgender characters in their work and, if so, how to do so and do justice to the trans community?

Episode #113 of Onstage/Offstage: Life Jacket Theatre's Travis Russ and Anthony Dvarskas talk about creating and producing documentary theatre and their last production, "America Is Hard To See," about a rural American community for sex offenders buried deep in Florida's sugarcane fields.

Episode #112 of Onstage/Offstage is up! We talk with fight trainer/choreographer Jamie MacPherson and find out all about working with young theatre artists, especially in today's apprehensive world when it comes to confrontational physical training. It's a lot more work than you might think. (Or maybe you might.)9m5PHAuT2fglJuYJEWF4

Our guest for episode #111 of Onstage/Offstage is L.A. playwright/actor/teaching artist DianaBurbano! We talk LatinX playwrights, Latina characterization, and why women don't submit their work as much as men.

He's spending his days lighting open-air amphitheatres in Italy. It's not as grueling as it sounds. But it is a labor of love, and Solomon paints his sets beautifully.

Her students were rehearsing at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School when the shooter began his spree. This is how a teacher and her students begin to make sense out of the days that follow.

We get into some deep talk about the art and intricacies of dramaturgy, racial and gender parity in current American theatre, and producing new plays by new voices.

We talk about women in irish theatre, self producing, her early works, writing technique and the dynamics of economical language. We also spoke about making audiences think, about the politics of life that characters carry with them and how playwrights underscore large issues with singular humanities.