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Monday, December 24, 2012

Feminist Spectator at New Address . . . Reminder by Jill Dolan

Just a reminder that The Feminist Spectator has migrated to Wordpress.New posts (and the archive of all old posts) can be found at www.TheFeministSpectator.com.Sign up for notification …

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Sign up for The Feminist Spectator at its new location by Jill Dolan

Just a reminder that The Feminist Spectator has migrated to Wordpress.New posts (and the archive of all old posts) can be found at www.TheFeministSpectator.com.Sign up for notification of ne…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 08:36AM
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Chely Wright, Wish Me Away by Jill Dolan

The Feminist Spectator has posted a new item:"Coming Out Stories: Chely Wright, Wish Me Away" . . . Chely Wright is a country music singer who debuted in 1994 and achieved her life’s …

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 11:58AM

Shameless Self Promotion . . . by Jill Dolan

. . . with information about the reissue of The Feminist Spectator as Critic and about The Feminist Spectator in Action, a forthcoming book of feminist criticism I'm publishing with Pal…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 11:57AM
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Scandal by Jill Dolan

The Feminist Spectator has posted a new item, 'Scandal'Shonda Rimes’ new television series arrived at its first season finale last week, after a terrific premiere and seven-week run and th…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 10:21AM
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Diversity Drama in the 2012-2013 Season by Jill Dolan

Hi, Friends, this is a redirect to the new blog site at www.thefeministspectator.com.  Do sign up to follow The Feminist Spectator there.The Feminist Spectator has posted a new item, 'D…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:48PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Smash and Broadway by Jill Dolan

The Feminist Spectator has posted a new item called "Smash and Broadway."  Here's a teaser:Smash ended its first season this week, and has been renewed for a second, minus Theresa Rebec…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 10:47AM
Monday, May 7, 2012

George Jean Nathan Award . . . and New Web Site by Jill Dolan

The ceremony at which I received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2010-2011 was staged in Prospect House at Princeton University on April 28, 2012.  Cornell profe…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 04:46PM
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Girls by Jill Dolan

Lena Dunham on GirlsLena Dunham’s HBO series has been hailed for itssharp, insightful snapshot of 20-something young, white, straight womennavigating their New York City lives in a post-Se…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 04:28PM
Thursday, April 5, 2012

The FS Suggests . . . Split Britches gets the Booth Award by Jill Dolan

FYI, Split Britches will receive the Edwin Booth Award from the Theatre Program of the CUNY Graduate Center today.I'm sure it'll be a wonderful conversation.  See the link for details.T…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 10:10AM
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Hunger Games by Jill Dolan

Jennifer Lawrence in her iconic pose as Katniss in The Hunger GamesHow sweet is the taste of a movie with a femaleheroine heralded as the top-grossing non-sequel film debut weekend of all ti…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 09:27AM
Friday, March 30, 2012

Game Change by Jill Dolan

Ed Harris and Julianne Moore as McCain and Palin in Game ChangeThe HBO-produced adaptation of Mark Halperin andJohn Heilemann’s best-selling 2009 book, GameChange centers on the John McCai…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 10:46AM
Monday, March 26, 2012

Porgy and Bess by Jill Dolan

Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis as Bess and PorgyThiscontroversial production comes to Broadway with the baggage of both historicaland contemporary critique.  Firstproduced in the 1930s a…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 05:48PM
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wit by Jill Dolan

Cynthia Nixon on Broadway as Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson's WitCynthia Nixon, playing the lead in the Broadway revival ofMargaret Edson’s play, Wit, does aheroic job putting her own ma…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 12:28PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Oscars, 2012 by Jill Dolan

Opening of the show at the theater formerly known as KodakWhat’s a feminist spectator to make of an awardsshow that honors films that have so little to do with women behind the c…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 10:57AM
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Queer Dance at U of Michigan by Jill Dolan

I was in Ann Arbor last weekend for the first-everconference on queer dance, co-organized by Clare Croft (whose dissertation I waspleased to advise at the University of Texas at Austin) and …

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 06:10PM
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Smash by Jill Dolan

Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty as duelling Marilyns in SmashWith only two episodes aired, it’s difficult tosay where exactly Smash, the new NBCseries about backstage Broadway lives, will…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 11:45AM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Pariah by Jill Dolan

Adepero Oduye as Alike in Dee Rees's PariahDee Rees’s debut feature film is a terrific studyof a teenaged girl who identifies as a lesbian, even though she lives under theheterosexual enfo…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 05:37AM
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Albert Nobbs by Jill Dolan

Glenn Close as Albert in Albert NobbsAlbert Nobbs has been Glenn Close’s passionproject since she performed the title role in Simone Benmussa’s play, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, i…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 05:28PM
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Canadian Theatre Review on Women and Trans Artists by Jill Dolan

Just a note to publicize an important new source of information on work by women and trans people in Canadian theatre . . .The Feminist SpectatorQueer Performance: Women and Trans ArtistsCTR…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 09:42AM
Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Descendants by Jill Dolan

Woodley, Clooney, Miller, and Krause, on the beach in The DescendantsWriter-director Alexander Payne’s films—if About Schmidt, Sideways, and now TheDescendants are any indication—are s…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 11:05AM
Friday, January 27, 2012

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Jill Dolan

Rooney Mara as Lisbeth SalanderDavid Fincher’s tense, moody film adaptation ofthe popular Stieg Larsson book actually improves on the readingexperience.  Where the book offered agreat…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 07:22AM
Thursday, January 26, 2012

George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, 2010-2011 by Jill Dolan

Just a note to say that The Feminist Spectatorblog won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for2010-2011.  I’m delighted by thishonor.  The Feminist Spectator is t…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 06:48AM
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same by Jill Dolan

Film poster; Suzan Ziegler and Lisa HaasI had the pleasure of seeing Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same at the Galway Film Festival in Ireland last summer.  It's now p…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 09:21PM
Monday, December 19, 2011

Once, the musical by Jill Dolan

The stars and supporting cast on the pub-style stageWhen youenter New York Theatre Workshop’s space on E. 4th St. to see Once, the musical adaptation of the 2007Irish indiefilm (see my 200…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 07:03PM
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Queen of the Mist by Jill Dolan

Mary Testa and the ensemble in Queen of the MistQueen of the Mist is a new musical by Michael John LaChiusa (Marie Christine, The Wild Party), whichthe Transport Group produced at the Judson…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:34PM
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

More on Hung . . . by Jill Dolan

Jane Adams and Thomas Jane as Tanya and Ray on HungAfter I posted on Hung, I watched a few more episodes, catching up with a recentstory-line (Episode 27, “What’s Going on Downstairs or …

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 01:15PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Godspell by Jill Dolan

The ensemble plays in the water in the show's openingComposer Stephen Schwartz and director John-Michael Tebelak conceived and wrote Godspell as Carnegie-Mellon University students in the ea…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 05:18PM
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Homeland by Jill Dolan

 Claire Danes as Carrie MathisonShowtime’s Homelanddebuted on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.  The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison,a CIA operati…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 04:00AM
Friday, November 25, 2011

Hung by Jill Dolan

HBO's advertisement for the seriesWith NurseJackie and The Big C on hiatusfor now, I’ve returned to Hung onHBO, which is enjoying its third season of social observation through thefoibles …

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 02:38PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Chinglish by Jill Dolan

Miscommunication in action in the opening scene . . .David Henry Hwang has long chronicled thecomplications of Asian and western cultures clashing with mostly deleteriouseffects.  His p…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 07:14PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
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Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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