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This week on Writers & Company Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Their conversation, recorded onstage at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ranges from his epic Angels in America to his latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, With a Key to the Scriptures.

Celebrated French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller talks to Eleanor Wachtel about adapting his stage play for the screen. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, The Father is nominated for six Academy Awards.

From New York, playwright and screenwriter, Quiara Alegría Hudes. The Pulitzer Prize-winner is best known for her collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the popular musical and feature film, In the Heights. In her new memoir, My Broken Language, she explores the intersection of identity and language, in relation to home. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.

The Swedish novelist and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri has received international acclaim for his innovative, politically charged work. Khemiri spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest novel, Everything I Don't Remember, onstage at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with the English playwright and director, David Hare. From post-war disillusion in Plenty to the invasion of Iraq in Stuff Happens and The Vertical Hour, David Hare has always remained socially engaged. His newest play is The Power of Yes: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis. Most of David Hare's plays and books of essays have been published by Faber & Faber. His films are available on DVD.

This week, Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with the cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter, Jules Feiffer on his new memoir, Backing into Forward. Backing into Forward is available from Random House.

This week on Writers & Company - Angels in America. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner about his epic and its transformation from the stage into a new six-hour TV movie.

Part I: Canadian biographer Phyllis Grosskurth turns the spotlight on her own life in her new memoir, Elusive Subject. Part II: Carol Shields on writing for the stage and radio.

This week on Writers and Company, part one of a series on London theatre. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with playwright, screenwriter and director Christopher Hampton. From Dangerous Liaisons to The Quiet American, his work displays a lively intelligence and a classic vision.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel continues her exploration of the London theatre scene in a conversation with Nicholas Wright. He's been described by Time Out magazine as "one of the great unsung heroes of British theatre." His latest play is about the mysterious suicide of a star BBC reporter.

"View from the Bridge: Turkish Writing Today," part 2. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Refik Erduran and Buket Uzuner. Erduran, a playwright, journalist, novelist, publisher, television producer and more, is a well-known personality in Turkish culture. He shares vivid memories of the early days of Ataturk's republic and at the same time offers astute observations on contemporary life in Turkey. Uzuner is part of a younger generation of Turkish writers. She worked for many years as a…

British writer and wit, Alan Bennett. One of the original members of Beyond the Fringe, Bennett is now known for his play and film The Madness of King George, and for his utterly engaging book, Writing Home.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews English playwright and director David Hare live onstage. From postwar disillusion in Plenty, to Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss, Hare is a man of political ideas and romantic passion.