Line Cooks Like Baby Birds by Maggie Cregan

    Maggie Cregan is a playwright based in Cleveland, Ohio, whose work often features dark humor, difficult women, and themes of contemporary American life. Line Cooks like Baby Birds will run in the Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre’s short play festival Eight 10s @ 8:00 in Jan–Feb 2026. Maggie’s full-length play The Station made its off-Broadway debut in the SheNYC…

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TCR Talks to Daniel A. Olivas, author of Waiting for Godínez

By Pallas Gutierrez The last time The Coachella Review checked in with Daniel A. Olivas, we published a review of his short story collection My Chicano Heart, a work that we described as both experimental and expertly crafted, starkly realistic and deeply magical. In his latest work, Olivas takes the experiments further with his first play, Waiting for Godínez. Inspired…

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Standing Up by Sopan Deb

Sopan Deb is a playwright, author and writer for The New York Times, where his topics have included sports and culture. He is the author of the novel Keya Das’s Second Act, and the memoir, Missed Translations: Meeting The Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me. Before joining the Times, Deb covered Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a campaign embed for…

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Abscission by Brian Petti

Brian C. Petti is an award-winning playwright who has been produced internationally by such companies as Headwall Theatre Company, Theatre of NOTE and 5th Wall Productions. Next Year in Jerusalem was the winner of the Humboldt State University National Play Contest in California. Heroines, On The Expectations of White Christmases, Like Drowning, The Love Song of Sidney J Stein, and…

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