Typecast: Boston's New Play Podcast

MFA Playwriting candidates Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens & Brandon Zang join host Darren Evans to discuss their plays "The Fig Tree and The Phoenix and The Desire to be Reborn" and "The Recursion of a Moth." The plays are being presented in a rep festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in February-March 2025. This episode's sponsor: The DeStalker.

MFA Playwriting candidates Maggie Kearnan & Tina Esper join host Darren Evans to discuss their upcoming plays "How to NOT Save the World with Mr. Bezos" and "Soft Star." The plays will be presented in a rep festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in November 2024. This episode's sponsor: MËTJÜS.

Join host Darren Evans with playwright Ronán Noone and Lyric Stage Company of Boston's Courtney O'Connor, as we discuss "Thirst," Ronán's play this is being produced at the Lyric under Courtney's direction. We touch on the immigrant experience, Eugene O'Neill, writing, producing and selling new plays, and indulge in a competitive trivia (drinking) game.

We are joined by writer M Sloth Levine and Director Josh Glenn-Kayden, the masterminds behind Company One Theatre's premiere of "The Interrobangers," a queer coming of age mystery that riffs on a certain classic Saturday morning cartoon staple.

In this episode, director Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and designer Karen Perlow talk about the design process for new plays and compete head to head in a game of made of up definitions.

Darren sits down to talk with the new cohort of playwrights in the MFA Playwriting Program at BU: Tina Esper, Maggie Kearnan, Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens and Brandon Zang.

In the launch of our second season, we introduce you to new BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian and new head of the BU Playwriting Program Nathan Alan Davis as they discuss collaboration, education, and food (lots of food).

Darren Evans, Caity-Shea Violette, Blair Cadden, and Anastasia Olowin discuss Violette's new play, Rx Machina, at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.

Darren Evans, Melinda Lopez, Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Megan Sandberg-Zakian discuss their new one-person play, Mr. Parent, at the Lyric Stage Company.

Darren Evans and Ally Sass discuss her new play Incels and Other Myths.

Darren Evans and Daniel Blanda discuss Blanda's new play, Gone Nowhere.

Darren Evans and Kate Snodgrass of Boston Playwrights' Theatre discuss LORENA: a Tabloid Epic with playwright Eliana Pipes.

This episode features a core part of the creative team behind the final production of BPT's 2021-22 Season of New Plays: Beasts . Playwright Cayenne Douglass, director Kelly Galvin, and actors Clara Francesca and Caroline Calkins join to discuss what is going on under the surface and what is exploding all over the stage in this wild new play. Plus we get around to some shenanigans with a new game...