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Join Pulitzer, Tony, and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on The Present Stage for a delightful conversation about his two plays currently running concurrently in New York: the off-Broadway premiere of Brooklyn Laundry and the Broadway revival of Doubt. We'll dive into how it feels to have to two shows open in NYC in the same week, what these two plays written twenty years apart might have in common, and why Shanley invited readers of Doubt's published script to email him their reactions and feedback.
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...
Published 10/29/24
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...
Published 10/04/24