Skip to content

urban excavations

fragments inspired by stage and screen

Menu

  • features + interviews
  • theater (reviews)
  • film + television
  • Women Count Report Series

Author Archives

martha wade steketee

Lover of ghost lights, movies, stories of creative lives, magic of live performance, storytelling in song.

features + interviews 0

Fornés Documentary The Rest I Make Up Director and Editor Discuss their Artistic Marriage

[Full interview originally published in Contemporary Theatre Review, Backpages 29.2, August 5, 2019.] Martha Wade Steketee spoke with filmmaker Michelle Memran and film editor Melissa Neidich in October 2018 about […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on August 8, 2019

features + interviews 1

Chairs, Tables, and the American Theatre Critics Association

When I was 10 years old in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, I was in a class at Wealthy Street Elementary School comprised of kids selected for their smarts (maybe) and to […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on July 22, 2019

music 0

“Just in Time”: An Appreciation

Judy Garland performed a morphing and modulating arrangement of the Betty Comden and Adolph Green gem “Just In Time” for about seven years, between 1962 (when it was crafted for […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on June 13, 2019

film + television 0

Calm and Coiled: Musings on the Lolling styles of Hepburn and Garland

Back in 2010 and 2011 I played with a theme, a meme,  of “lolling” through two of my favorite film divas  Lolling served as a way for me to select among […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on May 20, 2019

theater (reviews) 0

Critical Eye: Rupert Murdoch on Broadway in Tony-nominated “Ink”

[Full article published in Quill Magazine May 10, 2019.] James Graham’s play “Ink” opened April 24 at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Quill asked New York-based arts journalist Martha Wade Steketee to […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on May 10, 2019

features + interviews 0

Honoring the (Re)Vision: Catherine Zuber on Adaptability in Costume Design

[Full article published in Dramatics on-line and appeared in the April 2019 print issue of Dramatics.] AS AUDIENCE MEMBERS, we may imagine that set, light, projection, sound, and costume designs are executed and then […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on April 8, 2019

features + interviews 0

Halley Feiffer: Writing New Roles One Play at a Time

[Full article by Martha Wade Steketee published in The Clyde Fitch Report, March 23, 2019.] Playwright-actor Halley Feiffer is currently shouldering both of her hyphenated roles in The Pain of My […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on March 24, 2019

features + interviews 0

THE BAND’S VISIT: A conversation on creating the Tony-winning musical

[Full article published in Dramatics on-line and appeared in the August/September 2018 print issue of Dramatics.] ERAN KOLIRIN’S 2007 film, The Band’s Visit, is set in the deeply political geography of rural […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on March 5, 2019

music 0

Joanna Gleason’s ‘Out of the Eclipse’ with a Song in Her Heart

[article as originally published in Theater Pizzazz, March 3, 2019.] Deep moody melodies, a dark Yiddish lullaby, a few standards, and a smattering of singer-songwriter staples inform the splendid cabaret offering […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on March 3, 2019

features + interviews 0

Of Sound Mind: Fitz Patton Sees Theater As Tonal Adventure

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, February 24, 2019.] Fitz Patton is a Drama Desk and Lortel-winning composer and sound designer who has built an extensive and varied body of […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on February 24, 2019

theater (reviews) 1

‘The Price of Thomas Scott’ Offers Social Themes, a Dutiful Daughter, and Dance Breaks

The Mint Theater will unfurl a trio of plays this season by Elizabeth Baker (1876-1962), a woman of religious upbringing who worked in her family dry goods business as a […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on February 20, 2019

features + interviews 0

Lear deBessonet Makes Theater as a Hopeful Public Proposal

[Full article published in The Clyde Fitch Report, January 20, 2019.] In a previous series of CFR stories called Critical I, theater critics were asked to reflect on their work — […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on January 20, 2019

features + interviews 0

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 […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on December 30, 2018

film + television 0

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 […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on December 29, 2018

theater (reviews) 0

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 […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on December 12, 2018

theater (reviews) 0

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 […]

By martha wade steketee Posted on December 7, 2018

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 4 … 45 Next
A WordPress.com Website.
urban excavations
A WordPress.com Website.
  • Follow Following
    • urban excavations
    • Join 68 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • urban excavations
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...