That day, I aimed to view a production of The Tempest through a difficult flood. Prepared to pique an interest in the larger “theater is life” argument, I got my notebook ready. The hours passed. I sought to leave my apartment, and my transit app reported possible subway interruption. Ugh! Cancel culture, after three days of extraordinary weather, somehow won the play card again. Why hadn’t I seen the opera on opening night on Thursday?
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As a dance artist, you are, at a young age, bestowed with the supposed gift to make people feel....
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Jonathan Spector’s new play Birthright—just opened at MCC Theater in a sharp, superbly acted...
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Once again, the forsythias are in bloom, and that means new openings are arriving way too fast for...
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We were wrapping rehearsal for the reading of my play Seeing Maya, a Tel Aviv love story, at the...
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For the second time in two years, a flashy, big-budget Romeo and Juliet has opened in New York...
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Anissa Naji is a Moroccan-German multilingual actor, comedian, singer, writer, and teaching artist...
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4/5 Stars Coming from a glimpse of a barren thought of the sense of being presented with the...
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On a cold Saturday afternoon this past winter, retired director Laura Jones drove me around the...
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American women of a certain vintage can be sorted into haves and have-nots based on possession of...
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Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the world premiere The idea for the musical Chess belongs to...
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What if the guilt one feels on the death row is not for what he has (allegedly) done? The Fear of...
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Perhaps one of the strangest experiences one can have when moving to a new place is watching a...
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At a time when, in the post-Brexit years, British theatre is increasingly insular, a visit by the...
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In a small town, where nothing really happens, K. works at VHS World, alongside her teenage...
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Mark Rosenblatt’s new play Giant is a sensational, admirable, and courageous effort to Make...
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was a student of Lee Strasburg in his private class. I was directing around town, off-off Broadway, and in other areas in New York. I was invited to go to his Directors Unit at The Actors Studio for my first play that I was going to direct. I actually sat down and wrote a play, a one act play. When my play was acted at The Actors Studio, Cheryl Crawford brought in a financial man to hopefully give money to the Studio. He was so moved by the play that he gave $50,000 to the actual Studio. Lee Strasburg, who doesn’t show much emotion, was deeply moved by the play, and he encouraged me to really continue writing plays.
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Dedicated to the composer’s 25th Broadway anniversary David Yazbek burst onto Broadway a...
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It is ridiculous to think that it’s not enough to curate a Festival. I would stack up our good to bad ratio against any network season, any Hollywood studio, any program season. It’s impossible to look at a script six months out and know what you’re going to have on stage. It’s just not possible. I’ve helped curate too many Festivals to know that what we read has nothing to do with what ends up on stage, so this method is has been tested since 2007, and we have some amazing shows come through here.
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Chess The Musical: About Human Nature, Not Politics.… 20th May 2026 
Waking Up in the Spotlight with “The Unusual… 24th March 2026 
Christopher Hampton’s “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at… 8th April 2026 
“No Man’s Land:” Architecture As Collective… 6th July 2026 
Writing On An Empty Page: An Interview with… 9th July 2026 
