More summertime adventures working with playwrights and new plays at the O’Neill Conference.
The Feingold Column: Recollections of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference–Part 1
To spend two to four weeks enjoying an uncrowded beach and a park full of ancient trees while rehearsing new plays with a crowd of gifted and enthusiastic colleagues was like an invitation to paradise.
The Feingold Column: Good Grief, America!
The cultural forms and images that make us human, that give shape and meaning and memory to our collective life as a species, are being increasingly forgotten.
The Feingold Column: How the Musical Won
If music, as we’ve often been told, is the universal language, the Broadway musical seems at present to offer that language one of its broadest reaches
The Feingold Column: The Gish Sisters, and Bowling Green’s Disgrace
Ohio’s Bowling Green State University removed Lillian and Dorothy Gish’s names from a campus theater, and insulted the sisters’ legacies in the process.
The Feingold Column: 28 Years Later, I Still Don’t “Miss Saigon”
I’m innocent. I had no idea till after it had happened that somebody with access to the now-moribund Village Voice website had decided to celebrate the 28th anniversary of my review of the Broadway musical Miss Saigon by reprinting it, under the new headline “The Review That—Almost—Toppled Civilization.” (They thoughtfully included, farther down the column,…
The Feingold Column: Fire in an Uncrowded Theater
The rise and fall of America’s unconvincing answer to Stratford-upon-Avon
The Feingold Column: Mythical Musicals
Broadway has seen many musicals, but the ones it’s never seen still fascinate
The Feingold Column: Of Merch and Memorabilia
What objects survive to tell the theater’s vanishing story?
The Feingold Column: The Dramas of (and in) Books
As the Drama Book Shop staves off its final curtain, a consideration of the magnetism books—and their permanence—hold for theater people