Offscript, American Theatre’s flagship podcast for numerous years, is again as a Fb Dwell chat with the journal’s editors and particular company in addition to an audio podcast.

This month we speak to Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury and Tony-winning director-choreographer Justin Peck about crafting their new musical Illinoise, primarily based on the 2005 Sufjan Stevens album Illinois, and we additionally chat with New Yorker critic Helen Shaw, who tells us what number of upcoming performances she will be able to match on her calendar.

Illinoise performs on the Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, Jan. 28-Feb. 18, and involves New York Metropolis’s Park Avenue Armory in March. The manufacturing was initially developed, produced, and premiered on the Fisher Middle at Bard in July 2023. Shaw joined The New Yorker as a employees author in 2022, after serving as theatre critic at New York journal (don’t miss her writing for us as properly).