The XX Factor : theater

Girl-on-Girl Theatrical Action

Nina Shen Rastogi — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:07:00 GMT

Ann, I think you're right that the Times article on gender bias in the theater may have leaned a bit hard on the women-keeping-their-sisters-down aspect of the original study. (I also think you're right that the best thing we can do, as audience members,...(read more)

Is There Gender Bias on Broadway?

Ann Hulbert — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

It’s a catchy, catty angle, that’s for sure: An article in today’s New York Times about a recent study of potential gender bias in Broadway theater opens by suggesting that women playwrights do indeed have more trouble getting their work produced than...(read more)

I Won't Stop Believing in "Glee"

Nina Shen Rastogi — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:36:00 GMT

I really, really wanted to love Glee , the new Fox comedy about show choir —that strange, unholy amalgam of drama club, choir, and dance team. After all, I have already made my love of such dorky performance activities rather public. And before the first...(read more)

All Singing, All Dancing, All Heathers

Nina Shen Rastogi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:08:00 GMT

The Hollywood Reporter posted last night about a musical version of Heathers, the 1988 black comedy film (oh, has a genre epithet ever seemed more inadequate?) starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. I 'm dubious and excited at the same time. This...(read more)

David Edelstein on Hedda Gabler

Nina Shen Rastogi — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:16:00 GMT

Last year, Broadway got Kristin Scott Thomas in The Seagull and Katie Holmes in All My Sons. In this month's lady-from-Hollywood-takes-on-an-English-class-classic, we have Mary-Louise Parker ( Weeds , Boys on the Side ) as Henrik Ibsen's notoriously difficult...(read more)