
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 […]
fragments inspired by stage and screen
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[Originally 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 […]
[Originally 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 […]
[Originally 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 […]
[Original 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 […]
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, August 17, 2018.] There’s a moment early in the first act of Pretty Woman: The Musical — adapted by the late Garry Marshall and J.F. Lawton […]
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 31, 2018.] In Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand at New York Theatre Workshop, eight characters — seven women of color and […]
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, July 12, 2018.] Six actors and a fake baby in sequential performances dramatize one woman’s life journey in Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe at Second Stage’s […]
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, June 26, 2018.] What happens when you fold three couples with overlapping friendships and lurking past connections up against one another, throw in […]
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, June 19, 2018.] Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over, currently at Lincoln Center Theater, invites comparison with other plays but, in the end, stands on its […]