Taking Chances

Gracie Hays speaks to The Jungle’s writers, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, about their first days in Calais, the meaning of Good Chance, and sharing the stories of refugees.

March 25, 2019


Bethanie Hines

Cultivating Empathy

POP-UP MAGAZINE returns with the “Fall Issue” this September. We interview Marc Bamuthi Joseph -- poet, playwright, librettist, We Shall Not Be Moved; chief of program and pedagogy, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - on being a multimedia storyteller.

August 29, 2018


SOFT POWER cast performance. Photo by Craig Schwartz Photography.

How we move

Sam Pinkleton takes Gracie Hays through his early days, his best advice for the rhythmically challenged, and how he imagined dances for Hillary Clinton.

June 6, 2018


David Henry Hwang and Leigh Silverman in rehearsal for

Breaking the Form

SOFT POWER director Leigh Silverman tells Gracie Hays about building opportunities on Broadway, finding a shape for her shows, and showing an audience exactly how it’s done.

June 5, 2018


A chat with James Magruder

Our own Gracie Hays sat down with the man who adapted The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia into HEAD OVER HEELS, James Magruder.

March 30, 2018


5 Things You Might Not Have Known About Costume Designer Arianne Phillips

HEAD OVER HEELS costume designer Arianne Phillips sat down with Gracie Hays to share these five tidbits about herself that you probably didn't know.

March 23, 2018


Dance to the Beat

HEAD OVER HEELS choreographer Spencer Liff takes Gracie Hays inside the life of a nine-year-old on Broadway, auditioning rituals, and So You Think You Can Dance.

March 22, 2018


Joan Marcus

Make it New

Gracie Hays talks to HEAD OVER HEELS director Michael Mayer.

March 22, 2018


What’s the best way to tell a story?

POP-UP MAGAZINE's first show was nine years ago at a 300-seat theater in San Francisco. In Feburary, their national “Winter Issue” tour kicks off in SF with two shows at the Curran!

December 26, 2017


Machine Dazzle at work for TAYLOR MAC. TAYLOR MAC'S HOLIDAY SAUCE coming to Curran.

Little Fang Photography

24 Decades, 24 Costumes

Gracie Hays sits down with Machine Dazzle (and his sewing machine) to talk about the punk-rock process of distilling decades into dresses

August 23, 2017