Throwing Toys, Facing the Music: My Cathartic 2-Show Day
How to deal with rejection and gain perspective on this crazy business? Maybe spend a day watching Broadway musicals you worked on but ultimately weren’t cast in.
Category Archives: Opinion
All the Lonely People
We say theatre can be healing, but what if that were literally true?
Civic Scores: A Modest Proposal for Theatre Beyond the Stage
Why can’t Americans talk to each other anymore? Theatre artists may have precisely the right skills to kickstart discourse and rekindle empathy.
Palestine, Alive in Exile: ‘Returning to Haifa’ and Reclaiming the Narrative
A new staging of Ghassan Kanafani’s novella inaugurates Golden Thread’s 2024 Season of Palestine with a reminder of our past and invites us to consider a future of joyful resistance.
‘Tommy,’ Can You Hear Me? I’m Not Gonna Take It
From its casting to its staging, the acclaimed new Broadway revival of the iconic rock musical misses opportunities to engage with, and subvert, harmful tropes around Deafness and disability.
How ‘Days of Wine’ and ‘White Chip’ Stage Alcoholism and Recovery
2 shows currently running in New York mix unique strengths with some predictable tropes about ‘rock bottom’ and recovery.
The New ‘Real Women’ Musical Has Curves, But How About Complexity?
This enduring mother-daughter story about undocumented Latina immigrants has been turned into a celebratory crowd pleaser, for better and worse.
Big Feelings and Big Musicals in Seoul
A recent visit to Korea demonstrated that musical theatre can offer emotional and visual journeys beyond language, though not every choice translates well.
One Reason Theatre Is in Crisis: The Slow Death of Criticism
Peter Marks’s departure from the Washington Post is only the latest sign that too many of us have taken the importance of reviews for granted for too long.
Arts Are the Prescription We Need, Now More Than Ever
We don’t just get aesthetic or intellectual benefits from the expressive and performing arts—they can also be literally healing.
