Joseph Haj at the Guthrie Theater. (Photo by Liam James Doyle)
Offscript is American Theatre’s main podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (including Spotify and Apple Podcasts).
On this episode, we check in with Joseph Haj, who took over as artistic director of the Guthrie in 2015, and who around that time wrote for us about the need for more diverse leadership in the American theatre. How does he feel the field is doing on that front, given recent developments? And what was it like to live and work in Minnesota’s Twin Cities during Operation Metro Surge?
We also talk to Pittsburgh theatre journalist Sharon Eberson, who left her longtime post at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in 2020 and has since started a volunteer website, onStage Pittsburgh, to pick up the slack in arts coverage where legacy media has fallen short. She fills us in on the complicated merger ostensibly happening between two of the city’s biggest theatres, and about the imminent retirement of Quantum Theatre‘s Karla Boos.
You can download the episode here. If you have any feedback or suggestions for Offscript, please reach out to at@tcg.org.
