A Statement With a Gun: Why ‘Assassins’ Doesn’t Need the Firepower
Classic Stage Company’s understated new production shows how Sondheim and Weidman’s triggering musical can play in an age of mass shootings and the Capitol insurrection.
Category Archives: Opinion
Contagion, Soap, Immersion: London Theatre Unmasked
The city’s theatres are stumbling back to their feet, with mixed results and a seemingly cavalier attitude toward COVID.
Contemporary Plays, Teaching From the Page as Well as the Stage
The work of writers like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Annie Baker, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is riveting in the theatre, but the rewards of close reading shouldn’t be ignored.
Broadway May Be Back, But Who Is It For?
The proliferation of plays by Black creators on the Great White Way is cause for celebration, even as it raises some familiar questions about risk and representation.
A Manifesto for the Future Stage: Performance Is a Human Right
How we can make the most of the possibilities of liveness, technology, and human innovation.
We Must Reject ‘Oppression Olympics’
We won’t achieve equity for marginalized voices by pitting themselves against each other, as Theresa Rebeck’s recent column seemed to suggest.
Second-Act Problems: What Comes Next Is Up to Us, and Also Not
Poised between a troubled but familiar past and the uncertain promise of a transformed future, is it any wonder we’re having trouble with the next act of our lives?
The Critical Revolution Will Be Tweeted
The pandemic led to innovative, alternative forms of theatre. Can theatre criticism keep up?
All the Screen’s a Stage: A Transmedia Manifesto
As theatremakers celebrate the return to in-person, in-venue performances, it’s imperative to keep open the doors offered by digital theatre and celebrate its place alongside the stage.
Once on This Island: How LaChanze Helped Me Heal After 9/11
The attacks on the World Trade Center hit close to home, and it was a Broadway cast reunion concert that pointed the way back to life.
