In today’s Wall Street Journal I offer a brief summary of key trends in American theater during the past decade, part of an ongoing series of reports by the paper’s arts critics. Here’s an excerpt:
Read the whole thing here.Ten years ago, close observers of the theater scene would likely have agreed that most of the main figures in American theater, actors excluded, were men. But things were already changing in 2010, and I don’t know anyone who’d make such a claim today. To the contrary, American theater is now well on the way to becoming a woman’s game….
Whatever the reasons, the shift is here to stay. So is an equally consequential shift that is, however, in no way desirable: The Broadway-style American musical has entered a period of creative decline….