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.