All articles from Clyde Fitch Report
These artists remind us of how multivalent the theater is, how many solutions there are to the crises of funding, isolation, censorship and personal voice.
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On this episode of the Burke's Law podcast, we enjoy those that Trump once called "My generals" giving him a slap-down -- right in his tiny privates.
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By the time our theaters reopen, which artists will be left standing? Let us revisit the ancient notion of the acting company.
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Restorationists expect a familiar process will always work: they're about the car wash. Opportunists look to innovate: they're about getting the car clean.
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To my nonprofit arts fraynd and geshvister: email me, we'll tawk. Don't be a zhhlub and go schnorring for shekels. Don't ask -- yet.
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It's one thing to grow up, and grow insecure, as the child of a celebrity. It's another thing to transcend it all with forgiveness.
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It's not just actor-playwright Charles Busch offering a revelatory exercise in camp along Off-Broadway right now. Watch his co-star.
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Remembering a period of history that was downright cruel, especially in regard to women's health -- and the woman who exposed it all.
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"The Glorious Death of Comrade What's-His-Name" is based on a 1928 play, "The Suicide," by Nikolai Erdman, who was later exiled to Siberia.
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All else aside, writes William J. Mann, the actor was "a voice in the wilderness warning about the celebrity culture he spied coming down the tracks."
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Have you heard about the election? I mean, it's all over the news. And are you factoring the election into your programming?
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This is two-act, two-hour-and-40-minute political issue to which attention must be paid.
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Judith Ivey appears at the center of a few, very individual stories of certain troubled Americans -- and a much, much larger American tragedy.
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Only 34 at the time that he wrote his first play, Jitney, August Wilson may or may not have known just how the emotion-driven syncopation of his language " haunting and lyrical, yet searingl…
One day, reaching for this book will be a good way to revisit the escapades of the Trump presidency -- and to be glad that they're over.
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Welcome to a 2019 fantasy history play about a 1979 White House experience that might have been.
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The problem with Seattle's Intiman Theatre following (not for the first time) the hysterical-panic fundraising playbook first pioneered by Oral Roberts.
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An exhilarating example of the public service that theater is forever capable of providing.
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If colonization is what got us to this place, maybe "re-indigenization" -- in dance -- is our way forward.
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My old friend -- director of Broadway's hit "Slave Play" -- tells me why theater is the space for the complicated and the uncomfortable.
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My, my -- how can I resist Harvey Fierstein in his new play, "Bella Bella"?
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The hold of conservative Christianity on the American body politic is a symptom of the crisis.
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"Our idea has been to let the plays shine, to let the playwright shine, and to support each other."
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Harris' play is so scattershot that his many points, and the fireworks that generate, remain unhappily in chains.
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Some say dance and film -- and especially technology -- make for strange bedfellows. Not so.
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"If we can inspire a sense of connection, wonder and whimsy in a fractured world, then I think we have done our job."
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When it comes to acknowledging Native land before a performance, artists and administrators sure have room for thought and growth.
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As Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." The Lennon-Bairds were no exception.
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An Oct. 3 live Skype from Antarctica at a Connecticut museum highlights science "on the ice" -- and art.
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Composer Michael Kooman and book writer/lyricist Christopher Dimond celebrate their "average" world-premiere CD.
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If there's no positive impact you can measure, why hang your hat on the idea?
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But why salt so much dialogue with, like, annoyingly contemporary expressions?
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Don't tell me that I "need to calm down," Taylor. Oh, and please, Kellyanne, don't sing.
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Actors Zawe Ashton and Charlie Fox add immeasurably to the playwright's most biographical work.
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Looking to ancient drama to comprehend the incomprehensible.
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Looking back on more than three decades creating community and drama around the world using the techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed.
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The zeitgeist doesn't bode well for top-flight musical theater scores. Unless...
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If you won't pay artists -- or respect HR laws on exempt and non-exempt employees -- maybe you don't deserve our donations.
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Who has legal standing to know the results of an investigation? What about a moral imperative?
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An entrepreneurial composer returns to full-time composing.
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There must be method to playwright Halley Feiffer's current madness.
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Despite predictable drawbacks, Chris Urch's theatrical indictment is an important work of art.
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Let's reject the antiquated idea that you're either entirely in or out of the arts.
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It's the wild, wild west (of Westeros).
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Diversity, inclusion and curious sins of omission in a new book on the "greatest star."
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With the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) under right-wing attack, Mary Kathryn Nagle sounds the alarm.
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An autobiographical musical about an autobiographical musical about -- well, you know.
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Danny Rocco's sprawling experimental history play proves that everything new is old again.
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The playwright thinks he's offering us shocks. They register more like mild nudges.
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With the 2019 Met Gala's "Camp" theme, the name Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is coming up more regularly now in pop culture. For example, I recently attended a luncheon and received a free copy …
