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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…
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 dr…
. . . 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…
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 the …
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…
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…
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…
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-Sex …
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…
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…
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 McCain-…
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…
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 mark…
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 cam…
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 …
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 t…
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 enforc…
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, in Ne…
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…
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 sensiti…
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 s…
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 the…
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…
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 2007 …
