149 stories by "Leonard Jacobs"
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.
The post Immersive Theater Brings Legendary Nellie Bly B…
"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.
The post If Stalin Had a Least-Favorite Musical, W…
The hold of conservative Christianity on the American body politic is a symptom of the crisis.
The post Dear Will Arbery: About 'Heroes of the Fourth Turning' appeared first on Clyde Fitch R…
"Our idea has been to let the plays shine, to let the playwright shine, and to support each other."
The post How Two Mfoniso Udofia Plays Became One Night of Theater appeared first on Clyde …
Composer Michael Kooman and book writer/lyricist Christopher Dimond celebrate their "average" world-premiere CD.
The post How 'Average' Howard Barnes Became an Above-Average Musical appeared…
Who has legal standing to know the results of an investigation? What about a moral imperative?
The post Death of 'Chicago' Actor Jeff Loeffelholz: Updates, Debates appeared first on Clyde Fi…
Danny Rocco's sprawling experimental history play proves that everything new is old again.
The post 'Convention': Staging a 1944 Progressive-Moderate Slugfest appeared first on Clyde Fitch R…
How to play an avaricious, amoral capitalist in an age of avaricious, amoral capitalists.
The post Inside David Garrison, a Well-Defended Mr. Mister appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
Or, satire is not "what closes on Saturday night."
The post When Ari Melber Gets 'In Your Face' appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
You have a tough scene late in the play. You probably know it -- what you do at the end of it.
The post Dear Tasha Lawrence: A Letter About 'All Our Children' appeared first on Clyde Fitch R…
Dance "from character and situation and circumstance and plot and theme."
The post Giving Chase to Choreographer Chase Brock appeared first on Clyde Fitch Report.
Move over SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. There are incalculable ways to harness the power and presence of pure visual art with the arresting and urgent immediacy of performance. Add in a pa…
This "Fiddler" is forever.
"Casual" and "aggression" are not compatible states of being.
Mixing menace with comic mayhem,
Why would "thousands" of people protest a young actor named Tyler Lea?
"Who does she think she is, Tyne Daly?"
Performance artist Holly Hughes -- famous as one of the "NEA Four" -- along with the legendary feminist filmmaker-artist Carolee Schneeman, artist-journalist-geographer Trevor Paglen and the…
As reported previously at the CFR, the National Coalition Against Censorship, together with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and the School of Visual Arts, held tw…
Update: Since I published this post earlier today, the actor in question has told me that Actor's Equity is threatening to levy a fine for not reporting box office receipts from the New York…
Either the ArtsJournal bloggers have been on fire lately or I haven't paid them enough attention. Both are possible, but I'm thinking it's the former. Richard Kessler's arts education blog D…
When you have a set of circumstances out of one's control -- say, for example, an editor who gives out an assignment then promptly decides she hadn't given out the assignment, like she's liv…
I've been having a great time working with the New York International Fringe Festival -- especially Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy and SMAC (or Social Media and Community) guru Be…
