Annie Baker
The Front Row
“Janet Planet”: Melt the Icebergs
The playwright Annie Baker’s first feature conceals its depth of experience under a narrow array of details.
By Richard Brody
The New Yorker Interview
Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen
In the playwright’s début film, “Janet Planet,” Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter—and everyone else—over the course of a long, hot summer in western Massachusetts.
By Helen Shaw