Do We Even Need to Say This? Yes, Shakespeare Belongs on the Curriculum
A response to Dana Dusbiber’s wrongheaded ‘Washington Post’ column arguing that dead, white Shakespeare shouldn’t be taught anymore.
A response to Dana Dusbiber’s wrongheaded ‘Washington Post’ column arguing that dead, white Shakespeare shouldn’t be taught anymore.
At an April conference in Toronto, we came up with a plan for change that can take root and grow into a more equitable future for female theatre artists.
As she retires from leading the Hunter College MFA playwriting program, I’m grateful for what she taught me about plays—and about life.
Hounded from their home country but staying together via Skype, Minsk’s toughest troupe is back in New York with another harrowing but mesmerizing piece.
Recasting American history with non-white actors not only makes ‘Hamilton’ feel immediate, alive. It’s also a reminder that the story is still being written with each retelling.
Two new one-woman plays dramatize the unique stress and ethical pitfalls of fighting in the Chair Force.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s subversive new hip-hop history musical richly deserves the acclaim. Here’s hoping it paves the way for more stories of, by and for the hip-hop generation.
Retiring from a creative calling that never really paid my bills has been much harder than I’d imagined—but it seems to have already happened anyway.
Somehow a Russian doctor who died in 1904 was able to pre-diagnose our 21st-century ways of not connecting, of spending our lives alone together.
In seeming to strike at the foundations of the realist family play, playwrights like Will Eno, Young Jean Lee and Taylor Mac may actually be proving the durability of its four walls.