Author Archives
Lover of ghost lights, movies, stories of creative lives, magic of live performance, storytelling in song.
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2018: excavation review themes
I squeezed adventures in Norway, Sweden, the wilds of central Wisconsin, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island into 2019, a year of paring, sifting and sorting of involvement on professional boards and continuing projects. I served on the executive committee of… Read More ›
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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 theater-obsessed friends and colleagues. By my rough count, during 2018… Read More ›
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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 and under-produced new works by women, trans and non-binary playwrights,… Read More ›
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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 embodied by main characters playing veteran newsmen and newswomen, digital… Read More ›
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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 2014, the Women Count report series collects and publishes analyses… Read More ›
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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 satire, when living through a time of political lies, overt… Read More ›
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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 Kenneth Lonergan’s long sob of a play, The Waverly Gallery, buries… Read More ›
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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 Great American Songbook and cabaret acts across the country in… Read More ›
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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 1400s amid the Hundred Years War in Jane Anderson’s play Mother… Read More ›
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‘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? There are too few dramatic treatments of the effects of… Read More ›
