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On the stage, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright builds diorama-like realities. In her own life, things are much more mysterious.
Greta Gerwig interviews Annie Baker

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Through his stripped-down, radically humane approach to theater, Sam Gold has found a new dimension to a classic American play.
Spoilers in here for The Glass Menagerie on Broadway but a nice little Annie Baker story.
âAnnie Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright with whom Gold has collaborated for nearly a decade, told me about an argument they had when they were making âThe Aliens,â a play about three stunted young men, which takes place on the back patio of a coffee shop in Vermont. Gold and the set designer Andrew Lieberman felt that the set should be only four feet deep â âwhich is nothing, basically.â The idea of such a shallow stage worried Baker. They eventually compromised and ended up with a set that was six feet deep. âI just remember it changed in this incredible way,â Baker said. âItâs just these guys up against a blue wall for the entire play.â The actors could hardly gesticulate, much less move across the stage for dramatic effect. The picture the audience saw was so still, it was almost like a photograph.â
Signature Theatre has added performances to the sold-out run.
The original run sold out fast so they added an extension.Â
The nominees for the 2017 Olivier Awards were announced this afternoon. Here are some first thoughts on choices that were a mixture of just, obvious ('Harr
The Flick is nominated for best new play at the Oliviers
The 2016-2017 season is the last one under the Signatureâs founding artistic director, James Houghton.
A new play by Annie Baker, The Antipodes, will play Signature Theater in April 2017. Interesting that Sam Gold will not be directing.Â

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âThe best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity of the theatre,â according to one US critic. As The Flick premieres in the UK, Annie Baker talks about art, awkwardness and bubble tea
âIâve seen people destroy their plays, their beautiful and mysterious plays, because theyâre worried the audience isnât going to get something, so then they make it really explicit and obnoxious. I really respect my audiences and I donât feel like they need to have things explained to them. It might not be their taste and they might walk out. Itâs not because theyâre stupid. Itâs not because Iâm stupid. Itâs not because the playâs stupid and itâs not because the playâs super smart.â
The writer and director discuss this new production of the Pulitzer prize-winning play.
For those in London, donât miss out on this discussion with Annie Baker and Sam Gold on April 15th at the National Theatre. Â
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The international takeover of Annie Baker has begun. They are doing a German-language staged reading in Berlin in April at the FIND festival
The Flick
by Annie Baker German version by Christoph Buchegger and Theresa Schlesinger Direction: Christoph Buchegger
Staged Reading during FIND 2016
The American playwright Annie Baker won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her story of three young people working in one of the last running independent movie theaters in Massachusetts. The popcorn-scented dialogues of ÂťThe FlickÂŤ will be read aloud and presented for the first time to a german audience, in a staged reading with members of the Ensemble.
Words by Tavi Gevinson Illustrations by Maria Ines Gul Grace and I saw The Flick last weekend at the Barrow Street Theater and already I miss Avery's upspeak coming out from under his glasse...
Tavi Gevinson discusses The Flick
I think itâll be my Cheers. I havenât felt this way about a work of fiction in a long time; that âsuspension of disbeliefâ is an irrelevant term when we so clearly live among our favorite stories in a Brecht Evens painting of vitreous, overlapping worlds. The Flick restored my faith, reminding me that the closest thing I have to religion or the sense that someone, somewhere is watching over me is the assurance that everything I could possibly feel has been articulated by someone who I guess is just a mouthpiece for a screenwriter.
This year, she kicked off a residency at the Signature Theater with a short run of John and began work on a screenplay for talent-spotting Ăber-producer Scott Rudin.
â So what character has felt closest to you? The character of Genevieve in John â the writing of her was very much about me, really, two years ago, trying very desperately to figure some stuff out. And so I have a kind of fondness â sheâs like a 90-year-old blind woman, but sheâs a metaphor, certain characters are metaphors for moments in my psychological development. I donât want to get overly personal, but I do feel like every character in every play I write is in the middle of a psychological struggle that Iâm in the middle of when Iâm writing the play.â

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Annie Baker will be one of the judges for the PEN Theater awards.
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards ($7,500 and $2,500): Three awards which honor a Master American Dramatist, American Playwright in Mid-Career, and Emerging American Playwright.
Playwrights Talk about the importance of grants and awards for young writers.
âAs a young playwright starting out, did you need to take on work (writing or otherwise) to support yourself? Â Yes. I had many different jobs. I was a nanny, a fact-checker, a bookstore clerk, an editorial assistant, a residence hall manager for under-18 ballerinas...â
I would see an Annie Baker play about a residence hall for under-18 ballerinas.
Also sheâs not the first person I know who had that job.
The paper of record dispenses with design credits, while 'Futurity' imagines a new musical theatre.
Annie Baker fights for designer credits to be included in New York Times. Â Â
In a private but widely shared post, Baker wrote, âI have always felt that the designers are the co-authors of my shows, and just as important as the playwright and director and actors. Getting to work with brilliant designers has been the great unexpected joy of my career, and these people already donât get enough credit in a culture that undervalues composition and color and light and material and SPACE, for Peteâs sake, the very things that make our medium magical.â
I think there needs to be way more diversity in programming, but diversity for me means more than just women: if it's all plays about wealthy white women, that's not going to help us. You really have to look at the whole picture and see whose story is being told, in terms of geography, gender, class, race. I also think a big problem is not doing work that's experimental enough. If they moved away from more conventional plays--if the big non-profits programmed more experimental work--women and people of color would be writing a lot of those plays, so I almost feel like the problem would solve itself. But just focusing on gender worries me a little bit.
Annie Baker
There are so many comedic elements at work in both your plays. That's a rare type of comedy. It's hard to do and it takes a weird confidence and commitment that you don't really see. Because the emotional depth of what you do as a playwright, it relies on, I think what you traditionally call, the slow burn. [laughter] You're master of the slow burn....Because things get sparse, dialogue-wise, when you do hit the closure, whether it's funny or its painful, the punchline is built up through such a deliberate and spacious set-up for a beat. And in both shows, in a couple of areas, that payoff blows the whole fucking thing open and make the experience that you've just had all the more relevant.
Marc Maron on Annie Bakerâs comedy

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Todayâs the day. Annie Baker on WTF. Â Where she admits sheâs looking for a production of Guys & Dolls that will have her. Get casting America.Â
âMonday is Annie Baker day on @WTFpod!â
Reminder all you Annie Baker fans that THIS is happening!