Kyle Turner

Kyle Turner is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has been featured in Paste Magazine, The Village Voice, GQ, Slate, NPR, and the New York Times. He is relieved to know that he is not a golem.

April 2026Theater

These New Work Incubators Put Process Over Product

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Sometimes a work in progress is exactly where it needs to be to enthall an audience member. Spaces like Rough Draft Festival, Center for Performance Research, and Ars Nova are especially beneficial for theatermakers whose work bends genres and challenges conventional ideas of live theater. 

Kyle b. co.: Critical Club Therapy as part of OPEN AiR at Center for Performance Research. Photo: Elyse Mertz.

February 2025Theater

JERRY LIEBLICH & PAUL LAZAR with Kyle Turner

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Together, Jerry Lieblich and Paul Lazar explore the intersections of theater, politics, power, performance, and language in the bright, acerbically witty and linguistically acrobatic play The Barbarians, coming to La MaMa February 14–March 2, 2025.

A recent excerpt showing of The Barbarians at Twin Snakes. Photo: Maria Baranova.

October 2021Theater

For Your Eyes OnlyFans: Playwright Gage Tarlton on Sex, Confessions, and the Digital Age

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Brooklyn-based playwright Gage Tarlton is compelled by the ways in which OnlyFans seems to occupy the eye of the storm, both as theatrical space and tool, for younger people negotiating their lives and identities on the internet.
Courtesy Gage Tarlton.

October 2020Theater

“I Could Understand a Person, If That Person Was a…”

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How queer is Sondheim’s Company? The answer lies not in the interpretation of Bobby’s sexuality, but instead in Bobby’s unique outlook on marriage and coupledom. As Kyle Turner writes, the famed musical “queers a lineage of storytelling and socialization that presumes such statuses are end goals of satisfaction.”
Kyle Turner outside the marquee for the Company revival, seen on Broadway earlier this year. Courtesy the author.

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