When a Writer’s Rights Aren’t Right: The ‘Virginia Woolf’ Casting Fight
A lesson for Albee’s estate from Tennessee Willams’s: Classics can survive reinvention. And while we’re reviving, how about more diversity, not less?
All Stories About accountability
Middle Eastern-American Artists Ask: Who Gets to Speak for ‘The Profane’?
Zayd Dohrn’s new play at Playwrights Horizons has sparked a public conversation about equity, inclusion, and authorship.
I Am Miss Saigon, and I Hate It
It’s not just that the hit musical doesn’t tell my family’s story. It’s that it perpetuates a narrative in which the Vietnamese are victims, not fighters.
Does Race Have a Place in Theatre Criticism?
What the blow-up over a Times review of ‘Big River’ says about this cultural moment—and what it may bode for the direction of criticism.
How 1 Harassed NYC Theatre Freelancer Is Fighting Back
Rachel Dart’s Let Us Work Project aims to collect and share the whispered warnings that often come too quietly or too late.
Transgender Characters, in Their Own Words
Both ‘Trans Scripts’ and ‘Orange Julius’ let trans people tell their own stories, though only one credits a trans playwright.
CAATA 2016: Art and Activism, Pushing Beyond Exhaustion
At its 5th conference and festival, the Asian-American theatre alliance shared enthusiasm for new work and new strategies, as well as its critiques of persistent inequities.
Places to Go: Theatres Embrace the All-Gender Bathroom
As an absurd fight over transgender bathroom rights intensifies, theatres can lead by freeing their own facilities from the binary.
What Price Overtime? Theatre Workers Want to Know
The president’s new FLSA rules may force an overdue reckoning for the overworked, underpaid theatre field.
Whitewash ‘In the Heights’? Chicago, You Can Do Better
Authorial intent should be paramount, and “We couldn’t find any actors” is no longer a viable excuse.
