A Gay ‘Inheritance’ That’s Generations in the Making
Matthew Lopez’s two-part epic uses E.M. Forster as a template and is playing in London, but this sweeping, imperfect play is unmistakably American.
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In With the New at Oregon Shakes
By doing such vital work by living playwrights, this classical destination theatre with Shakespeare in its name effectively puts them on equal footing with the Bard.
What a Girl Wants
‘The Wolves,’ ‘Dance Nation,’ and ‘School Girls,’ all by young female playwrights, show girlhood in all of its complexity and ferocity.
High Noon for Democracy in ‘Ameryka’
What do Polish and U.S. history have in common? Nancy Keystone’s beguiling new mash-up makes the connections.
Viola Spolin’s House Is for Sale
Are we going to let the place where the mother of improv developed much of her thinking, and wrote her seminal book, be snatched up and possibly torn down?
Reading Between the Lines of Rejection Letters
Is there a way to humanize playwrights’ familiar submission/rejection cycle? Remembering that there are human beings on both sides of the exchange can help.
Ibsen, Our Contemporary
What gives this 19th-century Norwegian’s plays their lasting power? ‘Power’ is the operative word.
Gay Theatre Gets Hammered by the Canon, Again
The NY Times’ recent ‘Brief History of Gay Theatre’ was not so brief. So how did it manage to leave out so much gay history that wasn’t white and male?
‘Girl From the North Country’: How Does It Feel?
Conor McPherson, handed Bob Dylan’s complete song catalogue, no strings attached, brings it all back home.
The Enduring Lessons of ‘How I Learned to Drive’
My play about sexual assault has moved and inspired so many people, but first it rewrote me.
