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Friday, March 30, 2012

Game Change by The Feminist Spectator

The HBO-produced adaptation of Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s best-selling 2009 book, Game Change centers on the John McCain-Sarah Palin part of the ticket for the 2008 Presidential el…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:25PM
Monday, March 26, 2012

Porgy and Bess by The Feminist Spectator

This controversial production comes to Broadway with the baggage of both historical and contemporary critique.  First produced in the 1930s as a “folk opera” by George and Ira Gershwin,…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:31PM
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wit by The Feminist Spectator

Cynthia Nixon, playing the lead in the Broadway revival of Margaret Edson’s play, Wit, does a heroic job putting her own mark against Kathleen Chalfant’s signature performance as the dyi…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:39PM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Oscars, 2012 by The Feminist Spectator

What’s a feminist spectator to make of an awards show that honors films that have so little to do with women behind the camera or as central to their stories?  Other writers have detaile…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:12PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Queer Dance at U of Michigan by The Feminist Spectator

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

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

Smash by The Feminist Spectator

With only two episodes aired, it’s difficult to say where exactly Smash, the new NBC series about backstage Broadway lives, will take us.  Executive produced and so far written by playwr…

SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 03:35PM