Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

LIVE IN NYC: American Psychodrama with Tony Kushner and Jeremy O. Harris

In the final stop of our Fall tour, we invited playwrights Tony Kushner and Jeremy O. Harris to talk about all things spectacle, storytelling, and how they relate to this political moment. They are both artists who use their firm grounding in our own reality to give life to alternate worlds, ones full of drama and conflict and pathos. In this hour, they discuss the ways they hope their art echoes through time, what it means to make art in this moment, why Jeremy O. Harris thinks Donald Trump is actually a pretty uninteresting character, and so much more. Find tickets for <a href="https://publictheater.org/productions/season/1920/bright-room/" target="_blank">A Bright Room Called Day</a>Find tickets for <a href="https://slaveplaybroadway.com/tickets/" target="_blank">Slave Play</a>

Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening?

This podcast starts to answer these questions. Writers, experts, and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it all down and help him get a better night’s rest. “Why is this Happening?” is presented by MSNBC and NBCNews Think.