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?
Category Archives: Opinion
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.
Women Ran the Table at the 2018 Humana Festival
At the 42nd Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Kilroys and Anne Bogart spoke, Lauren Gunderson got a prize, and a majority female-authored program commanded the stage.
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.
Stirred by ‘The Post’? You Need to Know About ‘Top Secret’
The new Spielberg film celebrates the freedom of the press, but a 1992 docudrama on the same subject delved deeper.
Surprised That ‘Never Again’ Leaders Are Theatre Kids? I’m Not
Many of these Florida teen activists found their voice and their sense of community onstage.
Why I Stopped Teaching ‘Angels’ to Undergrads
It’s not just all the arduous unpacking: AIDS, Reagan, the closet, Mormons. It’s also that the play’s millennial dread seems puzzling to post-millennials.
