2025: excavation review
Calendar year 2025 productions, events, exhibitions at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.
Women Count VIII: Fifteen-Year View of Female and Non-Binary Hires Off-Broadway
[Selection from July 2025 report, published July 30, 2025 on the Women Count report series page.] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WOMEN COUNT VIII The Women Count project collects, analyzes, and reports New York City production […]
event preview | Tony Awards preview and cabaret concert at The Coffee House Club
A Coffee House Tony Awards Preview at the Coffee House Club at the Salmagundi ClubA Coffee House Tony Awards preview with Mark Rifkin, Simon Jones, David Barbour, and Martha Wade […]
A “Good Night” for TV: Clooney and company bring Murrow play to CNN
[Full article published in Quill Magazine June 3, 2025.] On June 7, CNN will be broadcasting, live from Broadway, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” a play written by and starring […]
2025 Drama Desk Award event and winners
June 1, 2025 — Winners for the 2025 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this evening at the Jack H. Skirball Center For The Performing Arts (NYU Skirball at 556 LaGuardia […]
2025 Drama Desk nominations announced
April 30, 2025 — Nominations for the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today on Spectrum News NY1 by Norm Lewis and Spectrum News NY1 hosts. In keeping with the […]
Churchill combines future terrors and present horrors with generous human instincts
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.Featuring Japhet Balaban, Ruby Blaut, Kyle Cameron, Orlagh Cassidy, John Ellison Conlee, Adelind Horan, Maddox Morfit-Tighe, Deirdre O’Connell, Cecilia Ann Popp, Sathya Sridharan, Junru Want, […]
Classroom scene study and deep power revelations
John Proctor Is the VillainFeaturing Nihar Duvvuri, Gabriel Ebert, Molly Griggs, Maggie Kuntz, Hagan Oliveras, Morgan Scott, Sadie Sink, Fina Strazza, and Amalia YooBooth TheatreMarch 20, 2025 – July 6, 2025 […]
Building a life and coming to personal truth in memoir-based drama
Becoming EveFeaturing Tommy Dorfman, Judy Kuhn, Tedra Millan, Rad Pereria, Richard Schiff, and Brandon UranowitzNew York Theatre Workshop | Abrons Arts CenterMarch 20, 2025 – April 27, 2025 [extended]production site Becoming […]
Secrets, lies, social legacies, and family survival
PurposeFeaturing Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Jon Michael Hill, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, and Kara YoungHelen Hayes TheaterFebruary 25, 2025 – July 6, 2025production site Purpose on Broadway plays as a […]
Women find community at the social battle lines of 1970s America
LiberationFeaturing Betsy Aidem, Audrey Corsa, Kayla Davion, Susanna Flood, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Charlie Thurston, and Adina VersonLaura Pels TheatreJanuary 3, 2025 – March 2, 2025production site In a contender […]
Language lessons as aspiration, identity, and community
EnglishFeaturing Tala Ashe, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Pooya Mohseni, Marjan Neshat, and Hadi TabbalTodd Haimes TheatreJanuary 3, 2025 – March 2, 2025production site Downtown moves uptown from Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross stage […]
2024: excavation review
Productions and events at which I counted, built collaborations, and supported theater and its creatives.
Gentle revelations in song in a robot-assisted future
Maybe Happy EndingFeaturing Darren Criss, Helen J Shen, Marcus Choi, and Dez DuronBelasco TheatreOctober 16, 2024 – runningproduction site Our world of dramatic literature, films, and television offerings (the most recent […]
Thornton Wilder’s small town story at a breakneck pace
Our TownFeaturing Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes, Billy Eugene Jones, Ephraim Sykes, Richard Thomas, Michelle Wilson, Julie Halston, and Donald Webber, Jr.Ethel Barrymore TheatreSeptember 17, 2024 – January 19, 2025production […]
Pain, pathos, and humanity served up as gentle gestures in The Counter
The CounterFeaturing Anthony Edwards, Susanna Flood, and Amy WarrenRoundabout Theatre Company | Laura PelsSeptember 20, 2024 – November 17, 2024production site Two lonely people meet in a public community space — […]
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