Kaddish for Steve: On the Jewishness of Sondheim
Sondheim’s work is elusive, ambivalent, internally conflicted, and deeply concerned with how stories are told. What could be more Jewish?
Yearly Archives: 2022
Melissa Crespo’s ‘Aha’ Moments
The busy stage director, now represented by ‘Yoga Play,’ is eager to garner both weighty conversations and big laughs.
NY Theatre Workshop Announces New Resident Companies
Safe Harbors NYC, Dominican Artists Collective, and JAG Productions will join resident company Noor Theatre.
New-Play Program ‘A Different Myth’ Seeks Black Writers
The new program from Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective and the American Myth Center will commission plays about Black life.
United States Artists Names 2022 USA Fellows
DeLanna Studi, Machine Dazzle, Marga Gomez, Nataki Garrett, and Lars America Jan make up the theatre and performance fellows.
Southwest Shakespeare Names Debra Ann Byrd Its New Artistic Director
The Harlem native, a classically trained actor and producer, will take the reins of the Arizona theatre company.
How Theatres Are Facing the Omicron Wave
No, it’s not March 2020 all over again, but the latest COVID-19 variant has theatres struggling with some familiar dilemmas of safety and scheduling.
Theater J Launches Canon-Expanding New-Play Program
The program will commission 7 Jewish playwrights of color in an effort to ‘correct and broaden’ conceptions of Jewishness onstage.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott Wins College Collaboration Commission
Reynolds-Knott will develop a new play with Oklahoma City University, Centre College in Kentucky, and Furman University in South Carolina.
The Subtext: Daniel Alexander Jones’s Library
This month Brian talks to the creator of Jomama Jones about the books and music that saved him as a child, and how they led to the books and music he’s making now.
