Isabella Byrd I: Chasing the Light
[Full article published in UrbanExcavations May 22, 2020, by Martha Wade Steketee.] I spoke with lighting designer Isabella Byrd several times in 2019, hoping to publish our interviews in several […]
Political Machines, Private Lives: Facing the Truth of ‘The True’
[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 […]
At Last, There’s ‘Peace for Mary Frances’ (and Lois Smith)
[Original published in The Clyde Fitch Report, May 24, 2018.] In The New Group’s production of Lily Thorne’s painful and beautiful play Peace for Mary Frances, an extended family contends with an aging […]
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