It Takes a Virtual Village: New Motherhood, Theatre, and the Pandemic
As if having a baby while working in the theatre isn’t hard enough, the pandemic has only intensified the stress—and the need for networks of support.
Category Archives: Opinion
Everything in Moderation: Rethinking the Talkback
Post-show engagement might take many forms, so why are we stuck with a one-size-fits-all Q&A format?
First the Album, Then the Show
Without the brand name of well-known IP, Broadway musicals are increasingly finding that releasing albums early is a route to the stage, and to fans’ hearts.
Gender and Sexuality on Broadway: You Oughta Know Better
Clocking the missed opportunities, missteps, and outright transphobic tropes in 3 currently running musicals.
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.
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.
