Putting the Pageant Cart Before the Plague
[Full article published in TDF Stages, February 23, 2018.] Tony-winning designer David Zinn creates a playful medieval world for The Amateurs David Zinn created an underwater extravaganza by designing the sets and […]
How a Tennis Match Changed the Conversation
[Full article published in TDF Stages, January 25, 2018.] Balls uses a legendary game to examine gender inequality It’s fitting that a coed creative team decided to theatricalize the 1973 “Battle […]
When John Lithgow Called, He Said Yes
[Full article published in TDF Stages, January 11, 2018.] How director Daniel Sullivan is helping the actor honor his father Tony-winning director Daniel Sullivan is known for helming complex, multicharacter plays […]
Teaching Manners to Build a Community
[article as originally published in TDF Stages, September 18, 2017.] MCC Theater’s new drama focuses on a one-of-a-kind charm school — Northlight Theatre‘s artistic director, BJ Jones, was so taken with […]
Women in Charge
[article originally published in Prologue (the OSF member magazine), Fall 2017 .] Two playwrights, Kate Hamill and Karen Zacarías, prove that female characters are limited neither by their senses nor their […]
Are You Ready for a Resurrection?
[article as originally published in TDF Stages, September 13, 2017.] How a multimedia artist is bringing a Long Island family back to life — Alison S. M. Kobayashi has an offbeat […]
An Experimental Argument: Ethan’s Lipton’s Outer Space Odyssey Toward a Sustainable Life
[article originally published in HowlRound, September 8, 2017.] Ethan Lipton has assembled a creative family of musicians and designers who have worked with him on a series of projects in New York […]
Theater Critic Helen Shaw: Monster in the Audience
[article as originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 20, 2017.] Debates about cultural criticism question its relevance, who is and is not a critic, and the audience for critical writing. We […]
A Collective Call Against Critical Bias
I am one voice among two dozen signatories to this piece that addresses selected critical response to several New York shows in the 2016-2017 season, and raises some questions about […]
Cultural Omnivore, Arts Critic: The Vanguard of Jose Solis
[article as originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, June 25, 2017.] Debates about cultural criticism question its relevance, who is and is not a critic, and the audience for critical […]
NICHOLAS ROHLFING | Entertainment Lawyer and LMDA
[article originally published in LMDA’s monthly newsletter New & Noteworthy Issue 2.8 May 2017.] LMDA recently entered into an agreement with Attorney Nicholas Rohlfing, who represents a range of clients in […]
Parity, Politics, and Survival: WiTFESTNYC 2017
[article as originally published in The Brooklyn Rail, June 2017, posted May 28, 2017.] This June, the Women in Theatre Festival (with its creatively capitalized WiTFESTNYC tag) will unfurl its […]
How Diep Tran Hones Her Theater Criticism — With Anger
[article as originally published in The Clyde Fitch Report, May 25, 2017.] It is fashionable to debate the importance of cultural criticism. The debate questions what criticism is and who […]
Making More Space for Latinx Artists
[article as originally published in TDF Stages, May 5, 2017.] The Sol Project returns with a new production — A traumatized doctor named Moisés sits in a washtub filled with pineapples […]
Finding the Personal in the Political
[Full article published in TDF Stages, May 1, 2017.] How one social justice theatre company uses real-life stories to inspire its art — Last summer, Houses on the Moon, a socially focused, […]
Roundtable: Is Jesse Green the right choice for the New York Times?
[I am one voice among many in this article originally published by “Exeunt Staff” in Exeunt Magazine, April 10, 2017.] As yet another white man is hired to the most […]
