Theater

ARIA

Davóne Tines Tells Jeremy O. Harris Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of the Opera

June 18, 2025

Before the New York premiere of “The Comet/Poppea,” singer Davóne Tines called us to talk about surviving the wrath of opera gays and making it out of horse country.

PLAYWRIGHTS

Behind the Scenes of Stage Left, a New Theater Festival By and For the Working Class

June 18, 2025

To celebrate the first iteration of a new theater festival hosted by Working Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition, we asked six contributing playwrights what makes them tick.

BACKSTAGE

Can an Estonian Clown Solve All Your Problems? Julia Masli Is Willing to Try.

June 12, 2025

In her new one-woman show running through June at The Public Theater, Julia Masli prompts her audience with a simple question: “Problem?” What happens next is anyone’s guess.

RADIO CITY

“Live Theater Is Back”: On the Ground at the 2025 Tony Awards

June 9, 2025

At the 78th Annual Tony Awards, we tracked down Tituss Burgess, Megan Hilty, Anthony Ramos, and Bob Odenkirk to talk about a superlative season on Broadway.

BACKSTAGE

Meet Ella Beatty, Daughter of Hollywood Royalty—and Sarah Paulson’s Kindred Spirit

June 5, 2025

The 25-year-old actor’s parents are a pair of show business legends: Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. But in a juicy new off-Broadway play with Hugh Jackman, she’s blazing her own trail.

IN CONVERSATION

Mia Farrow and Cole Escola Are Looking For a Room in Fire Island

June 3, 2025

From vacations with Bette Davis to being baptized (sort of) by her godfather George Cukor, Mia Farrow has had a unique life in show business. Last month, she took a walk down memory lane with her new bestie, Cole Escola.

BACKSTAGE

LaTanya Richardson Jackson Tells George C. Wolfe Why Purpose Is the Role of a Lifetime

June 2, 2025

As the Tony Awards approach, fellow nominees LaTanya Richardson Jackson and George C. Wolfe—of “Purpose” and “Gypsy,” respectively—got together to compare notes on their distinguished careers in theatre.

BACKSTAGE

For Colman Domingo, Telling the Story of Nat “King” Cole Was Personal

May 19, 2025

“You’re basically dynamite and I’m sugar this whole time,” Domingo told NYTW artistic director Patricia McGregor, with whom he’s co-written a play about Nat “King” Cole.

BACKSTAGE

Meet Tom Francis, the Bloodstained Beefcake of Broadway’s Sunset Boulevard

May 14, 2025

The morning after receiving his very first Tony nomination, the 25-year-old “Sunset Boulevard” star called Jeremy O. Harris to talk sweaty T-shirts and getting swole.

BACKSTAGE

Kip Williams Tells Rose Byrne How He Pulled Off the Epic Technological Feats of Dorian Gray

May 8, 2025

Just after receiving a Tony nomination for “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the director joined fellow Australian Rose Byrne to talk Oscar Wilde, mass surveillance and, of course, Beyoncé.

BACKSTAGE

How Broadway’s Audra McDonald and Joy Woods Made Gypsy Their Own

April 30, 2025

After six months of wowing Broadway audiences in the critically acclaimed “Gypsy” revival, its two stars stopped by the Interview offices to talk about becoming Rose and Louise.

BACKSTAGE

Adam Guettel Tells Jesse Eisenberg How He Wrote the Season’s Most Ambitious Musical

April 25, 2025

After 30 years, the musical “Floyd Collins” has finally made it to Broadway. To mark the occasion, Jesse Eisenberg asked composer Adam Guettel how he did it.

BACKSTAGE

Andrew Burnap Takes Jeremy O. Harris Inside Broadway’s Record-Breaking Othello

April 23, 2025

A few weeks into the new Broadway production of “Othello,” the 34-year-old actor got together with Jeremy O. Harris to talk self-care, Shakespeare, and show business.

BACKSTAGE

“Aren’t These Plays For Everyone?”: Behind the Scenes of BAM’s Macbeth in Stride

April 22, 2025

After opening night of “Macbeth in Stride” at BAM, director Whitney White and choreographer Raja Feather Kelly joined us to talk about bringing Shakespeare to Brooklyn.

TABLE READ

“That’s the GOAT”: Chase Sui Wonders on Making Theater and Meeting Martin Scorsese

April 16, 2025

After a table read of her new play, “Vermont, India,” the rising star joined us for a quick chat about live theater and working with the star-studded cast of “The Studio.”

BACKSTAGE

How Alastair Curtis Is Rescuing the Works of the Playwrights Lost to AIDS

February 27, 2025

“We shouldn’t look to Ryan Murphy to direct us to the next bit of forgotten queer history,” says the founder of The AIDS Plays Project. “We should have a compunction to go back and search for context.”

BACKSTAGE

“The Laughter Is a Trojan Horse”: Behind the Scenes of English With Tala Ashe

February 25, 2025

At the Todd Haimes Theater, the Iranian-American actor joined us to talk about bringing Sanaz Toossi’s play to Broadway in today’s charged political climate.

N.Y.C.

Do You Want to Be Famous?

February 11, 2025

The next gen of downtown performers make their red carpet debut.

SMOKE BREAK

“I’m a Jersey Girl”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Playwright Vogue Giambri

February 4, 2025

“I’m just a chaotic, spontaneous person,” says the downtown playwright of “I Can’t Make Sense,” her latest blackbox production. “This play doesn’t give you a second to be one thing.”

BACKSTAGE

Inside the New and Ambitious Revival of Oscar Hammerstein’s Show Boat

January 14, 2025

Before the opening of “Show/Boat: A River,” a bold reimagining of Hammerstein’s “Show Boat,” director David Herskovits joined us to discuss the show’s complicated legacy.