Ann Ronell: Count Her In
In an excerpt from the new book ‘Women Writing Musicals,’ we learn about the songwriter who became the first woman to write music and lyrics for a full Broadway score, in 1942.
Category Archives: Book Excerpts
How To Tell If You’re a Theatre Kid
In this excerpt from a new memoir about his years toiling Off-Off-Broadway, the author reflects on what it means to be young and bitten by the acting bug.
‘We Are in the Wrong Place’
In 1968, one of the regional theatre’s founding mothers wrote an urgent memo to her board: It was long past time to integrate the company and diversify the audience.
How to Empower a New Generation of Latinx Actors
Whether students are in the process of reclaiming or rejecting their identities, a new book offers resources to help subvert stereotypes and understand embodiment.
What Is to Be Done 2.0: Some Notes on Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis
What will it take to change our ways before climate crisis makes such change impossible? We can start by using one of the greatest human inventions: story.
Taylor Mac, Walt Whitman, and Adhesive America
Cruising Utopia with the Good Gay Poet.
A Meeting of the Mimes (and Clowns)
In this excerpt from a new book by the founder of Movement Theatre International, the author reflects on the crucial 1988 gathering in Philadelphia.
Making My Playhouse Great
In this excerpt from his new book about running the Pasadena Playhouse for 2 decades, Epps arrives at the intersection of its history and his.
‘Pippin’ in the Belly of the Beast
In this excerpt from a new book about the making of the iconic 1970s musical, the show collides with some real-life drama and danger in the nation’s capital.
Taking It to the Streets
Socially engaged performance has a rich history in this country, and it deserves an account as localized and multivocal as its leading practitioners.
