Vincent Cunningham

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. If you're feeling a little stressed out lately, not that I'm implying anything stressful is going on, you might do what Ayelet Waldman did and take up a hobby.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. If you're feeling a little stressed out lately, not that I'm implying anything stressful is going on, you might do what Ayelet Waldman did and take up a hobby.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. If you're feeling a little stressed out lately, not that I'm implying anything stressful is going on, you might do what Ayelet Waldman did and take up a hobby.

Waldman is a novelist, an essayist, and earlier this year she wrote a piece for The New Yorker about quilting. Waldman discovered that quilting was not just pleasant or useful...

Waldman is a novelist, an essayist, and earlier this year she wrote a piece for The New Yorker about quilting. Waldman discovered that quilting was not just pleasant or useful...

Waldman is a novelist, an essayist, and earlier this year she wrote a piece for The New Yorker about quilting. Waldman discovered that quilting was not just pleasant or useful...

You can read Ayelet Waldman's essay, Piecing for Cover, at newyorker.com. She spoke with Jeffrey Masters, a senior producer on our show.

You can read Ayelet Waldman's essay, Piecing for Cover, at newyorker.com. She spoke with Jeffrey Masters, a senior producer on our show.

You can read Ayelet Waldman's essay, Piecing for Cover, at newyorker.com. She spoke with Jeffrey Masters, a senior producer on our show.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Vincent Cunningham, a staff writer for The New Yorker. There have been... At least 37 different productions of Romeo and Juliet on Broadway, not to mention countless high school productions. Maybe you were in one. I don't know. But this new one by the director Sam Gold is kind of a dark, clubby, Gen Z Romeo and Juliet.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Vincent Cunningham, a staff writer for The New Yorker. There have been... At least 37 different productions of Romeo and Juliet on Broadway, not to mention countless high school productions. Maybe you were in one. I don't know. But this new one by the director Sam Gold is kind of a dark, clubby, Gen Z Romeo and Juliet.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Vincent Cunningham, a staff writer for The New Yorker. There have been... At least 37 different productions of Romeo and Juliet on Broadway, not to mention countless high school productions. Maybe you were in one. I don't know. But this new one by the director Sam Gold is kind of a dark, clubby, Gen Z Romeo and Juliet.

It's as if the teens from Euphoria decided that they had to do Shakespeare, and this is what they came up with. The two stars are Rachel Ziegler, who you probably know from the latest movie version of West Side Story, and Kit Conner, who's from the teen Netflix hit Heartstopper.

It's as if the teens from Euphoria decided that they had to do Shakespeare, and this is what they came up with. The two stars are Rachel Ziegler, who you probably know from the latest movie version of West Side Story, and Kit Conner, who's from the teen Netflix hit Heartstopper.

It's as if the teens from Euphoria decided that they had to do Shakespeare, and this is what they came up with. The two stars are Rachel Ziegler, who you probably know from the latest movie version of West Side Story, and Kit Conner, who's from the teen Netflix hit Heartstopper.

I wanted to talk to Sam Gold partly just because I really admire his work, but also because I always have this question when someone does Romeo and Juliet, and the question is, why now? Gold has famously directed five of Shakespeare's great tragedies, and it seems that he's kind of working through something about Shakespeare in public in front of all of us.

I wanted to talk to Sam Gold partly just because I really admire his work, but also because I always have this question when someone does Romeo and Juliet, and the question is, why now? Gold has famously directed five of Shakespeare's great tragedies, and it seems that he's kind of working through something about Shakespeare in public in front of all of us.

I wanted to talk to Sam Gold partly just because I really admire his work, but also because I always have this question when someone does Romeo and Juliet, and the question is, why now? Gold has famously directed five of Shakespeare's great tragedies, and it seems that he's kind of working through something about Shakespeare in public in front of all of us.

So I wanted to understand why Romeo and Juliet, why now, and how he came up with this totally interesting, totally bonkers production. How does Sam Gold find his way into the middle of this mess? Like, what makes you decide to do Romeo and Juliet now?

So I wanted to understand why Romeo and Juliet, why now, and how he came up with this totally interesting, totally bonkers production. How does Sam Gold find his way into the middle of this mess? Like, what makes you decide to do Romeo and Juliet now?