Buddies blogger Johnnie Walker chats with Quiver creator/performer Anna Chatterton about the piece’s character and relationships, and the role that technology plays in bringing them to life. Your play is about a love interest coming between a mother and daughter, which …
Diane Flacks, writer and performer in Unholy discusses some of the thoughts behind the show with Buddies blogger Johnnie Walker. What was your inspiration this play? What influenced the notion of specifically women abandoning religion? I’ve always circled religion, god, faith, …
Buddies blogger Johnnie Walker chats with It’s All Tru playwright (and former Buddies artistic director) Sky Gilbert about how PReP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) drugs are affecting HIV/AIDS discourse in the LGBT community. How do you think the LGBT community sees HIV/AIDS in 2016? What’s changed? …
Johnnie Walker discusses Blood Weddings‘ return to the Buddies stage with performer and Aluna Theatre’s artistic director, Beatriz Pizano. The last time Blood Wedding came to Buddies, it was a huge hit. How does it feel to be returning? We are extremely …
Johnnie Walker talks with Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken of Mouthpiece about the journey of the show so far. How do you describe Mouthpiece to people who don’t know what it is? We describe Mouthpiece as a two-woman performance that explores what …
Buddies blogger Johnnie Walker sits down with Our Town director Allyson McMackon to chat about Theatre Rusticle’s interpretation of this modern classic. Our Town is such a well-known and frequently performed play. Why another production? I think Our Town suffers from a lot …
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how fucking queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can …