No Playwright Is an Island
New memoirs by Quiara Alegría Hudes and David Adjmi describe their arduous journeys to find themselves, as well as the communities that shaped them.
Category Archives: Books
‘If This Is All I Get, This Can Be Everything’
In this excerpt from the new novel ‘We Play Ourselves,’ a playwright navigates the highs and lows of an Off-Broadway opening night.
It’s the Words That We Don’t Say That Scare Me So
Dialogue is mostly a form of behavior and personal revelation usually accidental. Therein lies a drama, and a mystery.
Wolf at the Door: How Musicals Helped Me Live the Size of My Feelings
How the queerness of fairy tales and musicals, once coded and now more open, has always spoken—and sung—directly to me.
In ‘Dance We Do,’ Ntozake Shange Tells an Artist’s Love Story
Her posthumous release honors the under-recognized place of Black artists in dance and theatrical history.
Tilting at Windmills in a Storm
Stephen Haff’s invigorating new book ‘Kid Quixotes’ recounts a translation process that changed his students and himself as well.
Ricky Schroder’s Tears, Sweeney Todd’s Razors
In this excerpt from his memoir ‘Lot Six,’ playwright David Adjmi recalls childhood touchstones and the shape and meaning they gave to his pain.
A Trio of Fighters: Gregory, Blau, and Freedman
Three books look at the lives and impact of three influential 20th-century directors.
Theatrical Seekers and True Believers
New books document the processes and productions of 2 major New York companies.
Norwegian Wood
A hefty new Ibsen biography gives us a deeply difficult man in full.
