This Month in Theatre History
May recalls the Astor Place Riot, a vaudeville women’s rights advocate, the Moscow Art Theatre, a pioneer of Asian American drama, a Chicano performance troupe, and a beloved Tesori-Kushner musical.
All Stories About Tonya Pinkins
Tonya Pinkins Awarded Rachel Crothers Leadership Award
The League of Professional Theatre Women recognizes Pinkins for her exemplary service to the theatre field.
Horror and Magic With Tonya Pinkins
Her film ‘Red Pill,’ which she thinks of as a Black woman’s ‘Get Out,’ views the nation’s ills through the lens of horror.
Token Theatre Friends: Undoing Oppression With Tonya Pinkins and Briana Reed
The actor/director and choreographer drop by to discuss how women oppress each other and how make it stop. Plus the Friends discuss ‘Betrayal’ on Broadway and whether it’s wise to masturbate at the theatre.
Offscript: Tonya Pinkins’s Brechtian Alienation
This week’s guest is Tonya Pinkins, who discusses why she quit the controversial ‘Mother Courage’ at Classic Stage Company. Plus: The editors catch up on some big entrances and exits.
Is a Black Perspective Too Much to Ask of Brecht?
Rehearsal room squabbles aside, the questions raised by Tonya Pinkins as she departed CSC’s ‘Mother Courage’ deserve a closer look.
Duncan Sheik on CSC’s Disputed ‘Mother Courage’
The ‘Spring Awakening’ composer, who enjoyed working on Brecht’s thorny classic with director Brian Kulick and star Tonya Pinkins, weighs in on the show’s fortunes.
