EPISODE · May 30, 2025 · 49 MIN
Itamar Moses — DEAD OUTLAW
from The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers · host Itamar Moses, Dan Rubins
Dead Outlaw is playing on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre in an open-ended run. To learn more, please visit www.deadoutlawmusical.com. Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstageThe Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for Theatermania and Slant Magazine. You can also find Dan's reviews on Cast Album Reviews and in The New Yorker's Briefly Noted column.The Present Stage supports the national nonprofit Hear Your Song. If you'd like to learn more about Hear Your Song and how to support empowering youth with serious illnesses to make their voices heard though songwriting, please visit www.hearyoursong.org
What this episode covers
Pulitzer Prize finalist Itamar Moses joins the podcast to talk all things DEAD OUTLAW, his new Broadway musical about the life, death, and after-death of the very real scofflaw Elmer McCurdy. How did writing the show for Audible impact the storytelling? How did he decide which extraordinary facts of Elmer's unbelievable story to leave on the cutting-room floor? Why did he make Andrew Durand play dead for half the show? And what kind of people write a musical all about the inevitability of death? For answers to all those and more, don't miss this essential episode of The Present Stage!
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