I’ve Got a Beautiful Feeling About the Future of Hammerstein’s Farm
The 5-acre farm in Doylestown, Pa., where Oscar Hammerstein II wrote his epochal musicals is being turned into a museum and education center.
Category Archives: Opinion
What Is a Non-Binary Play?
Playwright Jonathan Alexandratos reflects on the plethora of joys, pains, ownerships, references, anxieties, comforts, languages, forms, and more to be found in non-binary plays.
A More Intentional Era for American Regional Theatre
The itinerant experiment at Long Wharf Theatre can be a model for other theatres that have lost connection with their communities.
How We Found the Musical That Found Us
On the closing weekend of ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ its lead producer looks back at an unforgettable journey that opened a window into a mental health movement.
One Scarf Vs. Siberia: What Can ‘Fiddler’ Teach a Parent in a Dangerous World?
A beloved musical about refugees, and a new one about current U.S. border policies, hit unexpectedly hard in a newly unsettled time.
Funny Girls, Money Men: The Complications of Jewishness on Broadway
Using ‘Funny Girl’ and ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ as jumping-off points, 2 theatremakers tackle the often cross-cutting challenges of Jewish representation, and explore why casting alone can’t save problematic material.
Wake Up, Theatres: Do You Think They’ll Stop With Book Bans?
The forces attacking the human rights and free expression of the most marginalized among us know exactly what they’re doing, but we have a way to fight back: the stage.
Why So Much Rain on Beanie’s Parade?
Fair criticism is one thing, but the vitriol directed at the ‘Funny Girl’ star, or at anyone who dared to celebrate her historic casting, felt personal.
For Better or Worse, We Still Live in Joe Papp’s World
The Public Theater founder’s life and legacy, traced in a documentary on PBS, may be best understood, and built upon, as part of the U.S. regional theatre movement.
Sundance Theatre Program, Rest in Power
The end of yet another path-breaking play development program, one with fieldwide impact and global reach, has not been properly mourned.
