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  • My Parents Were Tiger People: christopher oscar peña chats about writing race with A. Rey Pamatmat A. Rey Pamatmat, christopher oscar peña
    A. Rey Pamatmat: In the lobby for a production of my play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them I overheard a woman say, “This...
    6 · May 19, 2013
  • What Price Idealism, or Who You Gonna Dance With? Todd London
    One of my all-time favorite play titles is Christopher Durang’s ‘dentity Crisis. It’s minimalist genius: the personal crisis, the dropped “I.” Well, it’s ‘dentity crisis time in the nonprofit theater, but this time the “I” that got dropped stands for ideals or, maybe, idealism...In fact, to read Diane Ragsdale’s air-clearing report on a 2011 confab between producers from America’s commercial and nonprofit worlds, the “I” fell off somewhere back In the Intersection, that crossroads where the art theater meets the money one.
    16 · May 15, 2013

NewCritcriticism & analysis

  • "The Happiest Song Plays Last" at The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Dani Snyder-Young
    What’s bubbling up under the sidewalk of the American theater? Shifting demographics. Institutional regional theaters cannot continue to program exclusively for an audience of white,...
    13 hours ago
  • Here Lies Love W.M. Akers
    In his eagerness to cross genres, Byrne is like a much more talented, much less irritating James Franco. Conceptual art is best left to the professionals, but rock is Byrne's beat, and Here Lies Love is a sparkling reminder of why he became a downtown icon in the first place. His name may get them in the door, but the music will make them stay.
    May 16, 2013

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