The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers

Dan Rubins
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The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers

Hosted by Dan Rubins, theater critic at Slant Magazine, The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers celebrates the extraordinary playwrights (plus lyricists, librettists, and composers!) currently featured on New York stages. Each episode spotlights the writer(s) of a new play or musical running in New York City, inviting each guest to explore the genesis and development of the script, the transition from page to stage, and the questions that animate each work. With its focus on plays and musicals still running in New York, The Present Stage offers listeners a closer look at current theater and provides audience members with the opportunity to take a deeper dive into the creation of a show they've just seen.

  1. 2 天前

    Andrea Thome — CYMBELINE

    Translate Shakespeare into "modern-day" English. Preserve as much as the original text as you can. Oh, and, make it work in performance, too. That's the daunting challenge for playwrights commissioned as part of the Play On Shakespeare project. Andrea Thome joins the podcast to discuss her translation of Cymbeline, now running in its first professional iteration off-Broadway in a production by the National Asian American Theatre Company. Don't miss this fascinating conversation about what makes Shakespeare Shakespeare, how to adapt Shakespeare's verse for modern actors and modern audiences, and what it's like to collaborate with a 450-year-old icon.

    53 分鐘

  2. 1月29日

    Khawla Ibraheem — A KNOCK ON THE ROOF

    Playwright-performer Khawla Ibraheem joins the podcast to share the story of creating the character of Mariam, the narrator of A Knock the Roof, a play that charts the terror of a mother living in Gaza at the outbreak of war. The conversation explores the power of theater to demonstrate the humanity of Palestinians living under war conditions, the experience of developing this play in front of audiences around the world, and the responsibility of telling one woman's story. Don't miss this riveting episode with Khawla Ibraheem.

    38 分鐘

  3. 1月29日

    Gwendolyn Warnock & Kirjan Waage — DEAD AS A DODO

    It's Festival season! Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage are the co-writers, co-directors, co-designers, and co-star of Dead As A Dodo, a puppet music theater spectacle currently running as part of the Under the Radar Festival. This dynamic duo (and married couple) join the podcast to talk all things puppetry, theatrical storytelling, and creative collaboration as they share the story of how they brought the underworld whimsically and emotionally to life.

    34 分鐘

  4. 1月29日

    Sol Ruiz – POSITIVE VIBRATION NATION

    It's festival season! Sol Ruiz joins the podcast to talk about her rock-guaguancó opera Positive Vibration Nation which played as part of the Prototype Festival earlier in January. Hear all about how she's spreading the power of the Miami music scene through an operatic structure with themes of self-empowerment.

    30 分鐘

  5. 1月14日

    Jonathan Spector — EUREKA DAY

    Kicking off Season 3, Jonathan Spector makes his Broadway — and The Present Stage — debut with Eureka Day. How has this 5-year-old play about a school community embroiled in a vaccine debate changed since the pandemic? How does a changing director and cast affect the playwright's relationship to the work? And how did Eureka Day play for audiences in its German-language premiere? Hear all this and more on The Present Stage!

    50 分鐘

  6. 2024/12/13

    Robert O'Hara — SHIT. MEET. FAN.

    Join Tony-nominated director and playwright Robert O'Hara talking about his new play Shit. Meet. Fan. What is it like to write the first English-language adaptation of the most-adapted film of all time? How do you put your own personal voice into a story that's been adapted so many times in the past decade? What's with all the celebrities in the cast? And how does the 2024 presidential election shape audience's understanding of a play about the secrets — and the secret hatreds — that friends hide?

    34 分鐘

  7. 2024/10/29

    Manuel Oliver — GUAC

    In his powerful theater piece Guac, Manuel Oliver honors the life and legacy of his son, Joaquin "Guac" Oliver, who died in the Parkland shooting in 2018. Manuel Oliver joins the podcast to share why he turned to theater to tell his family's story, what he's hoping audiences will take away from the work, and how he and his wife Patricia have found new ways as activists and artists to continue to be caring parents to their late son Joaquin.

    36 分鐘

  8. 2024/10/04

    Douglas Lyons — TABLE 17

    Meet Douglas Lyons, the playwright of Table 17, a playful homage to Black rom-coms of the 90s and early 2000s like How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Love and Basketball. In this discussion, we explore the impact of those films on the play, the impact of a queer lens on shaping this romantic comedy, and the star power of Kara Young. Don't miss it!

    29 分鐘
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Hosted by Dan Rubins, theater critic at Slant Magazine, The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers celebrates the extraordinary playwrights (plus lyricists, librettists, and composers!) currently featured on New York stages. Each episode spotlights the writer(s) of a new play or musical running in New York City, inviting each guest to explore the genesis and development of the script, the transition from page to stage, and the questions that animate each work. With its focus on plays and musicals still running in New York, The Present Stage offers listeners a closer look at current theater and provides audience members with the opportunity to take a deeper dive into the creation of a show they've just seen.

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