133 stories from 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 dying V…
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…
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 detai…
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 …
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)…
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 play…
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 …
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…
