I discuss the process of writing "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theater" and how the current Broadway shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic has inspired reflect…
BroadwayRadio Special: Interview with Carey Purcell, Author of "From Aphra Behn to Fun Home: A Cultural History of Feminist Theatre"
Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art. And sometimes the two combine in an eerily prescient performance that both inspires and unsettles. Such is the case with Bleedin…
Originally published on TheaterMania View this story online Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula share much in common. Their titles are often uttered in the same…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online Harriet Tubman, Nellie Bly and Molly Brown are just a handful of the sheroes being celebrated on New York stages " When I was as…
The fires of rage in Medea burn hot, but in Simon Stone's new adaptation, all we see are the ashes. Stone's modern-day reworking of Euripides' familial tragedy about an enraged woman who …
"A great nose may be an index of a great soul," Edmund Rostand wrote in Cyrano de Bergerac. When considering the latest adaptation of this popular tale of love and tragedy, which pointedly l…
"Breathe everybody," Isaac Mizrah urged the audience before beginning the day's second performance of Peter and the Wolf. The intimate in-house theater proved to be a fitting venue for t…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online MarÃa Irene Fornés' Fefu and Her Friends is finally being revived after four-plus decades " Like many admirers of MarÃ…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online The lauded theatre company puts its singular stamp on the Arthur Miller classic " Even before it begins, Bedlam's take on Arthur…
Originally published on Theatermania View this story online Calling Sylvia Khoury busy is an understatement. The fourth-year medical student is also a playwright with two productions ope…
Jazz is a famously unstructured form of music. Often improvised, and unpredictable, it doesn't matter if there is no clear ending to the song: the mere experience of listening is thrilling e…
Originally published on Dramatics.org View this story online No one can accuse Reneé Rapp of method acting. The emerging star of Broadway's Mean Girls, who brings the scheming Queen Bee …
Originally published on Electric Literature View this story online One evening in late July, I huddled in a Manhattan basement, battling radioactive creatures and trying to stay alive in a p…
Originally published on TDF Stages View this story online Playwright Lily Houghton and director Kylie M. Brown discuss their world-premiere collaboration " Artists often channel their gr…
"A wives' world," the women sing as they triumphantly dance across the stage. ". . . and the male gaze will be cast away somewhere up among the stars . . ." With its empowered declarations a…
Originally published on TDF Stage View this story online The actor on reprising his role as Lonny in Rock of Ages Mitchell Jarvis credits Shakespeare with inspiring him to revisit his…
Winter Miller on the unexpected trajectory of her world-premiere play No One Is Forgotten " For years Winter Miller has been telling her playwriting students to "follow your yes," e…
Originally published on Electric Literature View this story online The road to hell is a lengthy passage in Hadestown, but the journey of Anais' Mitchell's re-envisioning of ancient Gr…
"That felt good," this critic thought after attending a performance of Hillary and Clinton, Lucas Hnath's topical new play in performances at the Golden Theatre. Almost three years …
The crushing of youthful ideals has fueled many a drama, both onstage and off. But few have accomplished this as powerfully, or as devastatingly, as Arthur Miller in his 1947 drama All My So…
Even the best garnishes can't save a badly-baked treat. Thus is the case of Benny and Joon, the latest movie-to-musical adaptation to take the stage. This pleasantly pleasing but unfulfillin…
As a teenager, playwright and performer Heidi Schreck visited many American Legion Halls, giving speeches on the Constitution that "drew a personal connection between your own life and the d…
Originally published at TDF Stages View this story online  Halley Feiffer and Trip Cullman discuss collaborating on The Pain of My Belligerence at Playwrights Horizons " "We joke t…
Originally published in TDF Stages View this story online Where to see female artists and women's stories on stage " According to the Broadway League, women make up 66% of Broadway au…