Middle Eastern-American Artists Ask: Who Gets to Speak for ‘The Profane’?
Zayd Dohrn’s new play at Playwrights Horizons has sparked a public conversation about equity, inclusion, and authorship.
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Zayd Dohrn’s new play at Playwrights Horizons has sparked a public conversation about equity, inclusion, and authorship.
It’s not just that the hit musical doesn’t tell my family’s story. It’s that it perpetuates a narrative in which the Vietnamese are victims, not fighters.
What the blow-up over a Times review of ‘Big River’ says about this cultural moment—and what it may bode for the direction of criticism.
Rachel Dart’s Let Us Work Project aims to collect and share the whispered warnings that often come too quietly or too late.
Both ‘Trans Scripts’ and ‘Orange Julius’ let trans people tell their own stories, though only one credits a trans playwright.
At its 5th conference and festival, the Asian-American theatre alliance shared enthusiasm for new work and new strategies, as well as its critiques of persistent inequities.
As an absurd fight over transgender bathroom rights intensifies, theatres can lead by freeing their own facilities from the binary.
The president’s new FLSA rules may force an overdue reckoning for the overworked, underpaid theatre field.
Authorial intent should be paramount, and “We couldn’t find any actors” is no longer a viable excuse.
Last season was notably diverse, but the 2016-17 season announced so far looks more like business as usual on the Great White Way.