"Jokes about raising children make an easy connection with certain sleepy-eyed audiences, but that can be its own parent trap. This is well-trod ground. ... The primary challenge of stand-up on this subject is that it risks cheap sentimentality. Nothing smothers comedy faster." - The New York Times
"The craft of shadow puppetry had historically been passed down, master-apprentice style, through the generations. With varied technologies and media dominating contemporary performance, practitioners of puppetry and scholars say this ancient form of theatre is under threat of extinction." - Hyperallergic
"iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media. Halpern put the building up for sale and (said) the biggest factor was upcoming property taxes bills she would have struggled to pay." - MSN (Chicago Tribune)
"For much of its running time, Camp Siegfried resembles a romantic drama, a coming-of-age story. That's a queasy proposition, considering the play's setting. In this boy-meets-girl, the girl lives on Hitler Street." - The New York Times
“If a seat’s good, you don’t notice it,” he said. “You only notice it when it’s bad.” In the world of theater seating, he added, “No news is good news.” - The New York Times
And her play, new to Broadway, is "about 'the precarity of life' — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional, can tumble a person into desperation — and the need we all have to be taken care of." - The New York Times
Is the mainstream media the place to debate the process of theatremaking? Or does honesty, however it cuts, break the compact of the rehearsal room, of the backstage? - The Stage
I’ve had artists and members of the theater community reach out after a review — yes, even ones where I didn’t care much for the show — and extend grace and understanding for my point of view on their work. As I sit here, I can’t fathom why some can’t extend that same hand to their colleague. - Seattle...
Lena Brown's play Sonia Itelson, or, A child, a Child was written, and set in, the 1910s; it was almost certainly not produced then, being against the same anti-obscenity laws under which Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger were prosecuted. Then it sat in a drawer for decades, until ... - Tablet
"A small but growing number of Dalit comedians (is) breaking into India's Brahmin-dominated comedy scene. Onstage, they're finding that examining caste through humor not only makes for better comedy, but is also personally empowering." Says one, “If you don't laugh at my jokes, I'll touch you." - The Christian Science Monitor
"Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors' Equity for $50 million, accusing the theater union of defamation after he was placed on its 'Do Not Work' list following his tumultuous production of Paradise Square." - Variety
Drama Centre London stopped taking new students in 2019 before shutting. ALRA, one of England’s most established performing arts institutions, suddenly collapsed.  Musical Theatre Academy closed its doors. At Roehampton University, the BA (hons) in drama has been discontinued. - The Stage
Just how much coddling do theatergoers need these days? An audience advisory for the touring production of the recent revisionist Broadway revival of “Oklahoma!” gives a jarringly literal spin to the term “trigger warning.” - Washington Post
"I think (they've) actively dumbed down the audience. And so the attention span of the majority of the audience is much less ... and I don't think plays are going to have long lives on Broadway — I feel as though it's turning into Disneyland, a circus and Las Vegas." - Variety
"(Humor) can make a situation much more terrifying. And we shouldn't make theatre actually if we can't laugh or if we don't have that distance from the material." And Wilson is acting on this idea with a play you'd never expect him to direct: Ubu Rex. - The Guardian
