67 stories 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…
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 Don'…
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…
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 operative…
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 of…
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…
Her sisters and her nurse minister to AgnesIt's been 30+ years since I've seen theBergman movie on which Ivo van Hove's Toneelgroep Amsterdam production isbased, but in any case, this produc…
Karl Miller and Aubrey Dollar in CompletenessSeeing thesetwo plays back to back made me think a lot about content and style in realistdramas. Both Itamar Moses's Completeness and Richa…
Dangling in front of a balcony at the Foxwoods TheatreAfter all the press brouhaha about Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark for thesemany years, and the vituperative reviews from most of the mains…
Sarah Kazemy and Nikohl Boosheri in a fantasy sequence in Maryam Keshavarz's CircumstanceWriter/director Maryam Keshavarz'sbeautiful, disturbing film tells the story of two Iranian high…
Martha Plimpton, Rob Lowe, and Sofia Vergara crown Melissa McCarthy at the Emmys[Note to readers: My mother, Cyma Dolan, died on August 19th,which I share only to explain the radi…
In May, I participated in the Feminist Performance Festival in Chicago, organized by E. Patrick Johnson and their Northwestern colleagues in performance studies and women's studies. (S…
I had the pleasure of also receiving last week a lifetime achievement award from the Women and Theatre Program (WTP) of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). My membe…
I was honored to receive the 2011 Outstanding Teacher in Higher Education award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) last week at the conference in Chicago. How …
Called to my attention by its writer/producer, Anna Fishbeyn, Sex in Mommyville has been transformed from a solo show that opened in 2010 at the Flea Theatre in NYC to a multi-character play…
I really enjoyed the final installment in the Harry Potter film series. I read the book when it was first released, and remember feeling very moved by how J.K. Rowling wrapped up her e…
The Galway Arts Festival opened last Monday, July 11, promising an impressive range of Irish and global theatre and performance opportunities through July 24. My own consumption of the…
Úna McKevitt conceived and directed the companion pieces Victor & Gord and 565+, which were performed together at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, Ireland, last weekend. Seeing …
In the category of shameless self-promotion, let me call your attention to two forthcoming titles, one by my partner, Stacy Wolf (or "Feminist Spectator 2") and the other a collection of per…
I've been living and teaching in Galway, Ireland, since the beginning of June, working with my co-teacher Stacy Wolf, 15 Princeton students, and five local students in a Princeton Global Sem…
I recently had the good fortune to have an op-ed piece on the dearth of women playwrights nominated for Tonys this year picked up by the Huffington Post. (Thanks to all of you who saw …
I saw The Shaggs Philosophy of the World at Playwrights Horizons on Wednesday (May 25, 2011), in its second preview performance. Based on a true story, The Shaggs describes how Do…
For the last nearly six years (since August 2005), I've mostly used the occasion of this blog to indulge in long-form essays about theatre, film, performance, television, and anything else t…
On Friday, May 20, 2011, I moderated a panel discussion on feminist performance at Northwestern University's "Feminist Performance Festival," organized by E. Patrick Johnson, Ramon Rivera-Se…
Seeing the Broadway revival of Larry Kramer's landmark AIDS play, The Normal Heart, prompted me to think again about activist theatre and how it might effectively communicate its consciousne…
