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Monday, March 17, 2025

Executive Letter: Inheriting Winter by Gabriela

A TCG co-executive director reminds us in our Winter 2025 issue that even in the middle of winter, it's still possible to protest, organize, and cultivate a garden of hope for the future.

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Editor's Note: Our Still-Unfolding Story by Gabriela

Our 2025 Winter issue launches during uncertain times"but they are precedented.

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Thursday, March 6, 2025

The Subtext: Tim J. Lord and the Human Story by Gabriela

This month Brian talks with the award-winning playwright about how he went from technician to playwright, and how to find the real drama behind a true historical event.

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Monday, March 3, 2025

Fornés Unleashed by Gabriela

A brief introduction to the Fornés playwriting method, with a condensed exercise adapted by Migdalia Cruz from María Irene Fornés's original lab at INTAR.

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Monday, February 24, 2025

Sunam Ellis Wants to Hear Your Voice by Gabriela

In this episode, Woodzick talks with the Seattle-based creative about returning to acting, creating caring classrooms, and seeing the 'whole picture' as a director.

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Friday, February 7, 2025

The Subtext: Aya Ogawa, In Control by Gabriela

This month Brian talks with playwright, director, and performer Aya Ogawa about "hacking away with a machete" toward a career and directing their own work.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Mirror, Mirror: What Meaningful TYA Representation Looks Like by Gabriela

The commissioning program Generation Now emerged from a desire to diversify TYA, and may offer a model for more communicative collaboration across companies.

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Resilience and Delicacy by Gabriela

This month, Gabriela reflects on what theatre can illuminate about the 'quiet art of survival,' and two busy artists share self-care practices and visions for 2025.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Theatrical Mustang: Monét X Change Wants the Stage by Gabriela

This month, Woodzick talks with drag superstar Monét X Change about her solo Life be Lifin', collaborating on music with BenDeLaCreme, sources of queer joy, and Broadway aspirations.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

The Subtext: Kelley Nicole Girod, in It for the Drama by Gabriela

This month Brian talks with the playwright, producer, Fire This Time Festival founder, and Apollo Theater director of new works about drama, balance, and Louisiana history.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

AT Education Monthly: A Tennessee 'Carol' and a Critics' Reunion by Gabriela

This month spotlights a collaboration between the University of Tennessee and Clarence Brown Theatre and looks back at readers' favorite school productions of 2024.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Theatrical Mustang: Vera Drew Is 'The People's Joker' by Gabriela

This month, Woodzick chats with multi-hyphenate filmmaker Vera Drew about cultivating joyful spaces for trans audiences through her DIY film 'The People's Joker.'

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Captioning Chicago by Gabriela

This month, Gabriela explores multilingual and nonverbal storytelling, Jerald remembers Kris Vire and celebrates Sondheim, and two care consultants share ways to recharge this winter.

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'Cabemos todos': Teatristas Without Borders at L.A.'s Encuentro by Gabriela

The Latino Theater Company's border-defying Encuentro, the fourth of its kind, gathered hundreds of Latine artists for productions, partnerships, and dialogues in multiple languages.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The Subtext: Jonathan Payne and the Sea of Stories by Gabriela

This month Brian speaks with playwright about striving to write one play a year and drawing inspiration from various roles and identities.

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Friday, November 1, 2024

Theatrical Mustang: Jinkx, DeLa, and the Holiday Queendom by Gabriela

In this month's Christmas-Halloween mashup, Woodzick chats with two drag icons about their seventh annual holiday show, as well as Seattle-based playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard about hor…

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

A Song That Old Was Sung by Gabriela

This month, Gabriela describes visceral reactions to Chicago stages, Jerald highlights Steppenwolf, plus we get a Halloween preview from two local costume designers.

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Monday, October 28, 2024

How to Survive an Election: Laugh With 'POTUS' by Gabriela

Selina Fillinger's popular farce about women taking control of the White House hits different this fall.

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Friday, October 18, 2024

Offscript: Chicago Shakes With the World by Gabriela

In this month's Offscript, we hear from three leaders who bring the world together through Shakespeare and new work. Plus, we learn about a new generative arts journalism fellowship.

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

The Sound of Hysteria by Gabriela

Deaf and hearing artists are looking for the timeless rage in a new staging of Green Day's 'American Idiot,' a collaboration between Deaf West Theatre and Center Theatre Group.

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Friday, October 4, 2024

The Subtext: Rachel Jendrzejewski on Presence, Poland, and Padua by Gabriela

This month Brian speaks with the Playwrights' Center core writer and co-artistic director of Minneapolis's Red Eye about chance encounters and her relationship to future thinking.

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Offscript: Most-Produced With Heidi Shreck, Rajiv Joseph, and Kate Hamill by Gabriela

On this episode we broke the news of which plays and playwrights will be the most produced this season. Listen in on a conversation between the editors and some most-produced playwrights on …

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Monday, September 30, 2024

A Space Between Abundance and Loss by Gabriela

This month we recap a fast-paced, eventful month and get to hear from visionaries Miranda González and Raquel Torre.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Voces y Votos by Gabriela

With apt new comedies programmed around election seasons, theatre companies have been complicating audience notions of the Latine vote and community.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Coffee Chronicles by Gabriela

Brian Quijada plants the seeds for a new play, with Hero Theatre's Nuestro Planeta commissioning opportunity and a research trip to El Salvador.

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Staffing Changes Announced at TCG Publications by Gabriela

Three multi-hyphenates on this magazine's editorial staff are promoted as Theatre Communications Group restructures and creates new positions.

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Friday, September 6, 2024

Offscript: Chukwudi Iwuji's Cyrano Is Larger Than Life by Gabriela

This month, the editors talk with the acclaimed actor about modernized classics, language, and how "Oppenheimer" led him back to the stage.

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Thursday, September 5, 2024

NAMT Grants, Geffen Writers' Room, and More by Gabriela

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

From Chicago: All the World's a Stage by Gabriela

This month we analyze the intersection between politics and theatre, plus get to hear from teatristas Sandra Delgado and Carlos García León.

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Friday, August 23, 2024

MTC Champion Fellowship, Prince Fellowship, and More by Gabriela

A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Three-City Artistic Director Charles Fee Announces Retirement by Gabriela

Since 2010, Fee has served as producing artistic director for Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.

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All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off