# Anne Washburn

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Ep 650- Anne Washburn Talks "The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire" At The Vineyard!

Acclaimed playwright Anne Washburn joins The Roundtable with Robert Bannon to talk about her newest work, The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, now igniting The Vineyard Theatre. Known for her imaginative, fearless storytelling (Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Shipwreck), Anne dives into a wild new …

Anne Washburn — THE BURNING CAULDRON OF FIERY FIRE

The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire runs at the Vineyard Theatre through December 7th. For more information, visit www.vineyardtheatre.org. Follow The Present Stage on Instagram at @thepresentstage The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers is hosted by Dan Rubins, a theater critic for …

The Perfidy of THE SUN, with Heather Flowers

Heather Flowers talks EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER: Powered by Blood (and the MEATPUNKS material beyond). We talk about body horror, episodic storytelling and serialization, the anger and clarity of punk, the multiplicity and illegibility of punk, and the process of creating EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER …

#131 — The Return of the Backlog Challenge! (with Tommy Proffitt)

We are joined this month by Tommy from Distant Echoes: A Star Wars Podcast and Lee Carvallo's Podding Challenge: A Simpsons Gaming Podcast to kickoff the return of the Backlog Challenge! But before we dig through our respective bins of games purchased but not played, let’s check in on some of the t…

Liberation's Susannah Flood was born into a family of acting teachers. Of course she's on Broadway.

This episode’s guest is Susannah Flood, from the play “Liberation” — one of the best-reviewed Broadway shows of 2025 (you can read Elisabeth’s glowing take for The New York Times here). The show mostly takes place during meetings of a feminist consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio. Susannah tak…

The Simpsons in a Time of Nuclear War

A new poll this week from AP-NORC found that when asked, close to half of Americans say they are very concerned that Russia would directly target the U.S. with nuclear weapons, and an additional 3 in 10 are somewhat concerned. Given that Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert at the st…

Fallout

End-of-times narratives themselves are nothing new; only the means have changed. While once a few horsemen and a river of blood were enough to signal the dusk of man, apocalypse now requires the imaginations of entire atomic laboratories — or roving squads of special effects crews. This week we loo…

This Is Not A Test

It was yet another week of will-he-won't-he: Will President Donald Trump authorize the release of the House Intelligence Committee's "memo," in spite of senior FBI and Justice Dept. officials' warnings not to do so? (Spoiler alert: He did.) Will he continue to edge the U.S. closer to a devastating …

Free Thinking - Eimear McBride & Nathan Filer

Prize-winning first novelists Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer join Anne McElvoy to discuss literary experimentation. Matt Thorne gives us a first night review of the European premiere of Anne Washburn's play Mr Burns which is set in a world without electricity. New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulomb…

Award-Winning Actors & New Play MVPs: Bobby Moreno & Steven Boyer!

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We're baaaack! Welcome to Season 3. We're returning to your pod queue with in-demand actors Bobby Moreno and Steven Boyer. You've seen them on stage and screen, most recently in The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire by Anne Washburn (Bobby) and Mother Russia by Lauren Yee (Steve). Over the years, they…