2018: excavation review themes
I squeezed adventures in Norway, Sweden, the wilds of central Wisconsin, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island into 2018, a year of paring, sifting and sorting of involvement on professional boards […]
2018: excavation review
Live and filmed performances, as well as readings of works in progress, filled my days in calendar year 2018. I usually attend solo, and yet often host my spouse or […]
Heather Raffo in ‘Noura’ Unpacks Family Legacies with Radical Hope and Forgiveness
Noura by Heather Raffo Directed by Joanna Settle Featuring Heather Raffo Playwrights Horizons November 27, 2018 – December 30, 2018 production site On the 2017 list by The Kilroys of unproduced […]
In ‘Network’ on Broadway, Design Battles Howard Beale
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, December 6, 2018.] The countdown clocks are everywhere at the Belasco Theatre these days. Whether on a screen or presented verbally by characters playing TV technicians or […]
Women Count IV: Women Hired Off-Broadway 2013-14 — 2017-18
[Selection from November 2018 report, published November 14, 2018 and updated November 26, 2018 on League of Professional Theatre Women’s Women Count project page.] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: WOMEN COUNT IV, 2013-14 THROUGH 2017-18 Since […]
Breaking Bad Brecht: Off-Broadway ‘Arturo Ui’ Goes Kerplop
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, November 14, 2018.] It is hard to appreciate a play meant to capture a self-promoting sociopath’s rise to power, especially a broad, biting political […]
After 50 Years, Elaine May Returns to Broadway
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, October 26, 2018.] After a half-century absence, Elaine May has returned to Broadway, only to fade away before our eyes. Each beat of […]
Film Review: A Problematic Stage ‘Funny Girl’ To Appear on Screens World Wide
Funny Girl is a late 20th-century show built on the bones of the singular performer Barbra Streisand. This musical with a grand set list that has moved into the […]
As Joan of Arc’s Mother, Glenn Close Sears Your Soul
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, October 17, 2018.] As Isabelle Arc, Glenn Close is a no-nonsense, straight-talking, country woman. She speaks to us from France in the early […]
‘Travisville’ Explores Race, Urban Renewal and Generational Divide
[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, October 15, 2018.] What happens when private business interests align with public interests, and public servants determine to destroy existing communities for commercial gain? […]
She’s Bernhardt, She’s Hamlet, and She Wears the Pants
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, September 26, 2018.] A search for an absent father and finding solace on the stage are both captured beautifully in Teresa Rebeck’s new play Bernhardt/Hamlet. […]
Political Machines, Private Lives: Facing the Truth of ‘The True’
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, September 21, 2018.] The spine of Sharr White’s new play The True, produced Off-Broadway by The New Group, is the whir of a sewing machine. It’s the […]
Harvard and Yale Make Cantata Out of Regatta for the Fourth Time
[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, September 19, 2018.] The show starts on the stairs at 54 Below. Twice in the past few weeks, these aural pre-shows have been somber […]
Pointed Political Parallels in an Off-Broadway ‘Henry VI’
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, August 23, 2018.] In Stephen Brown-Fried’s elegant new two-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VItrilogy for Off-Broadway’s National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), we don’t have to reach […]
The Maria Irene Fornes Play Marathon We Need Right Now
[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, August 21, 2018.] On Mon., Aug. 27, a 12-hour marathon of staged readings at Public Theater will celebrate the life and work of Cuban-born playwright […]
Garcia Channels Bennett: “It’s All About the Material”
[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, August 18, 2018.] The first show empties out, and a rapt audience of cabaret enthusiasts files into 54 Below for a late-night show featuring […]
