NYC’s Experimental Fests, Starring Me (and Thankfully Others)
Interaction, immersion, identification, and exploration at this year’s Under the Radar, Coil, American Realness, et al.
Category Archives: Opinion
How to Make It as a Poor Theatre Artist in New York City
So you want to be an artist, but have no personal wealth. 6 things to consider.
Market Rules: How We’ve All Been Reduced to Salespeople
Can art change the world? That may be the wrong question for an age when everything, including art, has become monetized.
The Arrogance of Losing, or Play the Game to Win
How the Colts’ crushing near-victory in the ’96 playoffs helped make me a playwright, for real.
To Sell or Not to Sell: How Would You Sum Up ‘Hamlet’?
One sign that Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy isn’t going away: No one can agree on what it’s about.
Is the Ticket Price Right?
Ticket pricing equilibrium is an ever-elusive puzzle for theatre managers. How do you find the sweet spot?
What Can Theatre Do? A Post-Election Colloquy, Part 2
Playwrights and artistic directors share more fears, hopes, challenges, plans, and self-examination in response to the election of Donald Trump.
What Can Theatre Do? A Post-Election Colloquy, Part 1
Expanded empathy and sharper edges, new voices and new audiences, are on the agenda for the nation’s playwrights and artistic directors.
Latino Theater Company: How We Grew, and Why
We started as a lab in the 1980s. Now we run a multi-theatre center dedicated to reflecting L.A.’s diversity.
Complacency Is Not an Option
We must respond to this moment of division and despair by telling urgent stories, finding new voices, and fighting for our values.
