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Theater Forward — 102 episodes

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The Mentor That Changed My Life - Pt. 1

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The 2026-27 Season at Forward Theater

3

We're in Love and We Don't Care Who Knows It

4

Interview w/ Suzan Fete - Artistic Director of Renaissance Theaterworks

5

The Algorithm vs. The Arts: Marketing for Theater in 2026

6

The Write Stuff: A Conversation About Developing New Work

7

Our 2026 New Year's Theater Resolutions

8

What We're Grateful for in 2025

9

Interview: Chad Bauman, Milwaukee Repertory Theater Executive Director

10

Top 10 Most-Produced Plays & Playwrights in 2025-26

11

Discussing Playwright Martyna Majok w/ Directors Marcella Kearns & Jake Penner

12

Long Story Short(er): A Debate About LONG PLAYS

13

Interview w/ BJ Jones, Northlight Theatre Artistic Director

14

Summer Lovin' - What We're Excited to See in 2025

15

Strings Attached: Arts Funding in America

16

The 2025-26 Season at Forward Theater

17

Fixing the Musical Pipeline: Interview w/ THE GREAT GATSBY's Kait Kerrigan & Nathan Tysen

18

Leading vs. Listening

19

Dreaming of Streaming

20

What We're Grateful for in 2024

21

The "Someone's Getting Canceled" Mailbag Episode

22

The Most-Produced Plays & Playwrights in America - 2024-25 Edition

23

Play Ball: When Sports Meet Theater

24

Missing the "Business" in Show Business - TCG Conference 2024

25

The State of Theater for Young Audiences

26

The Plays That Stay 2024 - Vol. 1

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What We're Excited to See in 2024-25

28

Forward Theater's 2024-25 Season

29

Mentors (a Michael Blakemore tribute)

30

No Longer a World Premiere...Now What? - Interview w/ Samuel Hunter

31

The Best of 2023

32

The Art of Making Money in Theater

33

What We’re Looking Forward to in 2023-24

34

Accessibility & ASL Interpretation

35

Hot Take: We Are Surviving (and Thriving).

36

Where is the Next Generation of Technical Artists?

37

Producing in a Post-Dobbs Decision Era

38

The Plays That Stay 2023, Vol. 1

39

We’ve Got a Beef With ”World Premieres”

40

Choosing Our 2023-24 Season

41

Interview w/ Playwright Lauren Gunderson

42

Fast Times at Understudy High

43

World Premiere Wisconsin

44

The State of Theater for Transgender & Non-Binary Artists

45

Emerging Directors

46

A Look Back at 2022

47

A Closer Look: The Board of Directors

48

Making Accessibility the New Normal

49

State of the Arts (in Education)

50

Most Produced Playwrights in America, 22-23

51

”There is No Backstage” - Interview w/ Linda Stephens

52

The ’Hamilton’ Debacle - Copyright Takes the Spotlight

53

Summer Lovin’ - Interview with American Players Theatre and Northern Sky

54

Interview w/ Ten Chimneys’ Randy Bryant

55

Our Hot Summer Mailbag Episode

56

Theater Needs a Check-Up

57

All About Our WI Wrights New Play Festival

58

Announcing Our 2022-23 Season

59

Desperately Seeking (New) Scripts

60

The Talkback Strikes Back

61

Lovin’ on Stage: Our Favorite ”Love Plays”

62

What the Heck is Going On?

63

The Plays That Stay, Vol. 5

64

”We made it” - Looking back at 2021.

65

Seeking Actors (With Instagram Followers)

66

What We‘re Thankful For in 2021

67

Remounting a COVID Casualty Production (The Amateurs)

68

Super Mailbag Episode - October 2021

69

Show Me The Money

70

Dramaturgy & Adrienne Kennedy

71

Interview w/ Marti Gobel & Baron Kelly

72

The Plays That Stay, Vol.4

73

Relegated to Summerstock

74

The Plays That Stay, Vol. 3

75

On the Fast Track to In-Person Theater

76

The Plays That Stay, Vol.2

77

Monologues 101

78

The Plays That Stay, Vol. 1

79

Interview w/ Writers of '46 Plays for America's First Ladies'

80

The 2021-22 Season at Forward Theater

81

Interview w/ Jen Uphoff Gray & Jake Penner

82

Rehearsing In-Person: Interview w/ Cast of Lewiston/Clarkston

83

Flyover Country (or The Urban/Rural Divide)

84

Identity-Conscious Casting

85

Where Do We Go From Here?

86

Interview w/ Howard Sherman

87

Interview w/ Christie Chiles Twillie

88

Best of 2020 (no, really)

89

#Enough - Interview with Michael Cotey

90

Union Beefs & Time Travel: The Mailbag Episode!

91

Safety First: Interview w/ Jared Clarkin of Milwaukee Repertory Theater

92

Political Plays

93

The Ones That Got Away

94

Our Guide to Creating Digital Theater

95

Gender Parity vs. Parody

96

Detroit Public Theatre - Interview With Courtney Burkett

97

The Future of Arts Education is...Strong, Actually.

98

Decisions, Decisions...

99

Zooming Your Theater Season Like a Boss

100

Podcasts We Love: Blacker the Berry

101

Our Favorite Live Theater Experiences

102

How to Plan Your Next Theater Season