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After a brief hiatus, I was so happy to get back to the interview format with my guest this week on the podcast, Lisa Gold, Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance, otherwise known as "A4." I became eager to interview Lisa when she spoke in my "Audience Development and Community Engagement" class at NYU, taught by the legendary Donna Walker-Kuhne (and a previous … [Read more...] about “There Was No One Who Looked Like Me”: Lisa Gold, A4, and the Link Between Art and Politics

Back when I interviewed Jonathan Bank from the Mint Theater Company, I promised there was a post to come about the closing of the latest Broadway revival of The Music Man, which seemed to send shock waves around the theatre community. As I approach midterms this week and next in graduate school, and didn't have an interview spot scheduled for a little bit, I decided to take … [Read more...] about On Music Man’s Closing, and the Business of Theatre

It's a tale as old as time. The drama department of a college or high school is filled with talented young women, and people of other under-represented genders, who are nearly bursting to get up onto the stage and prove themselves. Yet time and again, it's the same old story: the drama department does Hamlet, Death of a Salesman, The Iceman Cometh, or even something like The … [Read more...] about Where Are the Women?!: My Interview with Julia Greer, Co-Founder of The Hearth

I couldn't imagine a better second guest to introduce to my new, Arts Journal audience than superstar actor Claire Saunders: not only because she performed in Chains at the Mint Theater (the subject of my last podcast and article), but also because her career is defined by variety. I first heard of Claire when I saw her -- and her twin Alanna! -- perform in Barrington … [Read more...] about Claire Saunders and the “Business of Being Perceived”

I couldn't be more thrilled that for my first podcast episode under the guise of Arts Journal I interviewed Artistic Director and Producer of the Mint Theater Company, Jonathan Bank. For those who are unfamiliar, the Mint has a long history in New York City's Off-Broadway scene mounting what's called "lost," or forgotten, plays. Former NY Times chief theatre critic Ben … [Read more...] about “The World Has Changed a Lot Less Than We Think”: an Interview with Jonathan Bank, NYC’s Resident Resurrector of the “Lost” Play