2019: excavation review themes
My travels this year were limited compared to travel in prior years: several days in Washington DC (where i lived in the late ’90s and early 2000s), ATCA-related trips to […]
2019: excavation review
I lived thousands of hours in roving artistic communities that move from theater to reading room to cabaret venue in the course of 2019. By my rough count, during 2019 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Halley Feiffer: Writing New Roles One Play at a Time
[Full article 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 Belligerence, a world premiere running […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
Destruction and Rebirth in Coney Island
[Full article published in TDF Stages, July 17, 2018.] How Superstorm Sandy changed the trajectory of Fire in Dreamland Playwright Rinne Groff is obsessed with the obsessed, whether it’s an inventor’s […]
“The Camera is My Beloved”: Michelle Memran Creates Documentary Art with María Irene Fornés
[article originally published in HowlRound, June 12, 2018.] The Rest I Make Up is a poetic rumination by filmmaker Michelle Memran about playwright María Irene Fornés, now in her late 80s and living with […]
Unpacking the Role of Women in Ibsen’s ‘The Enemy of the People’
[Full article published in The Theatre Times, May 12, 2018.] GOODMAN’S RESIDENT DRAMATURG ON HOW HER WORK GIVES TEXTURE AND SPECIFICITY TO A PRODUCTION. Consider the riddle of Neena Arndt’s work at the Goodman […]
Positation in Action: Director Erin Ortman’s Multi-Year Journey with the Arabian Nights
[article originally published in HowlRound, May 2, 2018.] Several coincidences align to admit me to design meetings, workshop readings, and rehearsal rooms for One Thousand Nights and One Day[OTNAOD], a musical based […]
This Play Wouldn’t Exist Without Her Students
[Full article published in TDF Stages, April 24, 2018.] How Lucy Thurber’s new drama was inspired by a pair of her pupils Obie-winning playwright Lucy Thurber is as interested in talking […]
