Extended Play’s KC Luce interviews three students from American Theater Company’s Youth Ensemble about its recent production of the Civilian’s “This Beautiful City.”
Leading up to the Civilians’ production of “The Undertaking” premiering September 21-25 at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, we’re featuring some great interviews that didn’t make it into the play. The Civilians’ artistic director Steve Cosson interviewed Amber Carvaly as part of the research for “The Undertaking.”
“At OSF (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), diversity and inclusion are literally our core principles. And I love that, I find it such an expansive place to be.” – Julie Felise Dubiner
Extended Play’s Hailey Bachrach speaks to Strange Harbor’s Rosa Schneider and Zachary Tomlinson about their ambitious entry to the Shakespeare in Theater Festival in Brooklyn.
“The longer I’ve done public readings, the more I’ve understood that you have to take that space, and not worry about the audience getting uncomfortable.” — Eileen Myles
“I’ve always said if I could have any job in the world, it would be atheist Catholic priest. Give me a gorgeous cathedral to work in. Once a week I will write a blazingly good sermon and deliver it, and I will minster to people in their times of need.” – Gwydion Suilebhan
This is the second part of a conversation that Extended Play’s Tommy O’Malley facilitated between Sarah Schulman and Chris Tyler, two artists whose work speaks to the complicated legacy of Jonathan Larson’s “Rent.”
On the 20th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “Rent,” Extended Play’s Tommy O’Malley sits down with Sarah Schulman and Chris Tyler to talk about the legacy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show. Schulman argues that Jonathan Larson plagiarized huge chunks of “Rent” from her novel “People in Trouble.”
In light of #Rent20, poet Kit Yan and Jonathan Larson Award-winning composer Melissa Li talk about “Interstate,” their new musical about a queer Asian band traveling across the U.S. inspired by touring the country with their band, Good Asian Drivers.
“I think VR and theater are going to be best friends.” – Jarrad Bladich of The Mill
“Just don’t forget there’s no essential you, know what I mean? There’s no ground. And that’s scary, but I think it’s also fantastic. Because that means you can be anything. We don’t have to be stuck in the roles that we’re led to believe we need to be stuck in. We don’t have to be. I think it’s a message of hope that we’re empty.” – Dickie Beau
Georgina Escobar interviews playwright José Rivera, who created the musical “Another Word for Beauty” from a Civilians’ investigation of the annual beauty pageant at Colombia’s national women’s prison, El Buen Pastor, in Bogota. “Beauty” premiered at Goodman Theatre in Chicago in January 2016.
The Working Theater recently commissioned writer/performer Dan Hoyle to collaborate with director Tamilla Woodard on a research-based theater piece set in the Bronx. They’re in the process of creating “The Block,” which will tour all five New York City Boroughs in Summer 2016.
“I was noticing that, especially within the theater, a good bit of the material that discussed religion — specifically Christianity — did so satirically. Any time I notice a gap — something that’s not being talked about or said or noticed — then I want to rush in and make something for that barren space.”
Activist/writer Andrea Ciannavei interviews Jacques Servin and Laura Nix about the Yes Men, the activist performance duo that targets power systems.
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