The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut. By Robert Ito Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker has been hailed as one of the preeminent voices of her generation, but the movies have long lingered in her mind and in her work. In ...

For a new playwright, staging an Off-Broadway show is nearly impossible. Even getting anyone to read your work can be a huge challenge. But not for Annie Baker, who staged nine plays before she turned ...

Before starting filming on Janet Planet, Annie Baker and her sound designer, Paul Hsu, recorded two weeks of the ambient noises of the Western Massachusetts countryside. For the coming-of-age story ...

NEW YORK — The plays of Annie Baker take up a question that preoccupied Anton Chekhov at the end of the 19th century. How much propulsive action must a play contain to hold an audience’s attention? At ...

Playwright Annie Baker is the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama for her play, "The Flick," which focused on three young people who work in a Central Massachusetts independent movie house. The ...

We’re lucky to be living in the era of Annie Baker, a playwright who listens to people so carefully, who re-creates human speech with such amusement and care, that her characters feel startlingly ...

Annie Baker, playwright of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Flick. Photo: Brigitte Lacombe “This play is more of a remount, so tech isn’t quite as much of a mindfuck as it usually is. We’re making a lot of ...