Kiss Me, My Fair Carousel Woman: Now Is the Season of Our Discontent
Is this really the right time for a spate of male-authored, male-directed musicals about subservient women to come to Broadway?
All Stories About Real Talk
The Diversity of ‘Anne Frank’
Grappling with complex issues of representation, a multiethnic People’s Light staging offers a version for our fraught times.
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?
Will Theatre Leadership Remain White and Male? I Hope I’m Wrong
I and others like me could lead our field to greater equity and inclusion, if we’re given the chance—and if we even want it.
The Borders of Our Lives
The writer of ‘The Ghosts of Lote Bravo’ talks about embracing her heritage and depicting the pain of exploited women.
All Sizes Fit All: The Case for Normalizing Fatness Onstage
American theatre must embrace all body types, and stop shunning and shaming fat performers and their stories.
Training With a Difference
As the nation grows more diverse, theatre education needs to become less Eurocentric and more inclusive.
Did ‘Thomas and Sally’ Romanticize a Master/Slave Relationship?
How a play about an infamous pair ignited a controversy—and a conversation—about race, rape, and history.
Arabs and Muslims Onstage: Can We Unpack Our Baggage?
American theatres still have a habit of seeing Middle Eastern characters as embodying controversy rather than humanity.
Succession and Diversity Must Go Hand in Hand
With 20 major American theatres facing leadership transitions, boards and search firms have to do better than the status quo.
