Via American Theatre and Rattlestick Theater. What It Means to Be a Playwright Right Now This disorienting global moment is not an intermission—it’s the main drama itself. BY IDRIS GOODWIN Lights up on a freshly opened laptop or heavily sanitized smartphone screen The scroll begins, and down the timeline we go In the quick-moving montage, we … Read More
Via American Theatre. The Ground on Which I Stand by August Wilson African American theatre is distinct, distinguished, and fully deserving of the kind of funding and respect too often reserved for white culture and institutions. BY AUGUST WILSON Some time ago I had an occasion to speak to a group of international playwrights. They had come from … Read More
Via Project Muse. New Black Math by Suzan-Lori Parks In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Theatre Journal 57.4 (2005) 576-583 New black math Suzan-Lori Parks 10 years after writing the essay “the equation for black people on stage” Im standing at the same crossroads asking the same questions. No sweat. … Read More
A show that I produced and did some writing for is going to open in just a few hours. It’s a music-theater work made up of ten songs, written by ten composers, all of whom are immigrants or children of immigrants. It’s called SWELL. And it happens to be running the same weekend ICE is … Read More
