A Film Critic in Love in ‘The Black White Love Play’
A new show at Black Ensemble Theater sets Chaz and Roger Ebert’s storied romance to music.
A new show at Black Ensemble Theater sets Chaz and Roger Ebert’s storied romance to music.
Year after year, our national season preview survey shows a 4-to-1 ratio of male to female playwrights. What can we do about it?
Of 1,914 shows planned for the 2015-16 season, how many are written by women? We’ve got the stats.
Theatres that continue to program male-dominated seasons deserve scrutiny. But what about the many companies that are trying to get the balance right?
These organizations have made programming a preponderance of female playwrights a priority.
Do men write better plays than women? We think we know that’s not true. So why does the disparity persist?
Obviously, theatre’s gender gap has a long history. Less obvious: so do plays by women.
Appropriation is about more than facepaint; it’s about pretending that minority cultures are metaphors or fantasy worlds or backdrops for white narratives.
For the busy director, who also heads the TEAM, theatre is a continual search for the miraculous.
The late director was expert at new plays, musicals, and classics, and as sensitive with actors as with design. Another art he mastered: friendship.