Lee Sunday Evans, the artistic director of New York City’s Waterwell, discusses the power of transcripts in performance, the topics of immigration and deportation, and the urgent attention that needs to be paid to the United States’ border right now.
In our R&D In Process Series, members of our 2019-20 R&D Group take us behind-the-scenes of their projects in development. Today, Kate Douglas and Grace McLean let us in on a work session for their new musical “Against Women & Music!” It will receive a work-in-progress showing on June 29 at 3pm.
Over the next several weeks, members of our 2019-20 R&D Group will take us behind-the-scenes of their projects in development. Today, Matt Barbot shares about “Drown My Book.” It will receive a work-in-progress showing on May 29 at 7pm.
Ilana Becker interviewed R&D Group member Darrel Alejandro Holnes about his research process and his impetus for writing AFRIKAN•ISCH, a new play cycle drawing on ethnographic interviews Holnes conducted within Black communities in Berlin. Black Feminist Video Game, the first work in the cycle, will receive a work-in-progress showing on 6/24.
Over the next several weeks, members of our 2019-20 R&D Group will take us behind-the-scenes of their projects in development. Today, Crystal Skillman and Gaby Alter share about “This Show Is Money.” It will receive a work-in-progress showing on June 15.
R&D Group Program Director Ilana Becker introduces the six projects in development in the 2019-20 R&D Group. Over the next several weeks, Extended Play will be publishing interviews, songs, articles and more from the R&D artists, including previews of their work and behind-the-scenes insights into their diverse research processes.
In this interview, playwright Sam Chanse discusses the workshop process for her new play “What You Are Now,” and shares some of the things she read, watched, and listened to while she was writing it.
In this interview with Extended Play, the cast of “Whisper House,” which closed before its first preview due to COVID-19, reminisces about the show and discusses their hopes for its future.
Civilians’ Associate Artist Rebecca Hart will perform a livestreamed concert at 4pm EST today.
Director Tina Satter on how she and Half Straddle brought a verbatim FBI transcript to life in “Is This A Room.”
Extended Play’s Daniel Krane interviews Mark Russell, Director of the Under the Radar Festival, and “Andares” director Héctor Flores Komatsu.
In this interview with Extended Play, we talk to the creative team behind “Hang On,” an indie-folk exploration of the New York City subway. Come see “Hang On” this Monday, January 6 at 7PM at Joe’s Pub.
In this interview with Extended Play, the creative team behind “TRAPT,” a new devised investigative theater piece about trap music, discusses their creative process and ongoing reckoning with trap music in advance of a presentation at Joe’s Pub on December 16.
Extended Play’s Daniel Krane interviews Alix Lambert and Brian Young about the making of the music video for a classic Michael Friedman song and what Michael Friedman’s work means to them.
In this interview with Extended Play, members of the original cast of “This Beautiful City” talk about the show’s origins, Michael Friedman’s legacy and the bittersweet experience of recording the new album.
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