Portfolio Highlights
(Art composed by Kitty Suen Spennato)
“Everything Going His Way: My Dad’s ‘Oklahoma!’ Accessibility Journey” (AmericanTheatre.org, October 2019)
Taking my father, a Parkinson’s patient and stroke survivor, to the current Broadway revival was a challenge, but well worth it.
“Nothing But Time: When ‘Godot’ Came to San Quentin” (American Theatre, February 2019)
How the Actor’s Workshop’s storied 1957 performance set the stage for collaborations between correctional facilities and U.S. theaters.
The cast of “The Diary of Anne Frank” at People’s Light in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 2018. (Photo by Tori Harvey)
“The Diversity of ‘Anne Frank’” (AmericanTheatre.org, March 2018)
Grappling with complex issues of representation, a multiethnic People’s Light staging offers a version for our fraught times.
Other Recent Work
AmericanTheatre.org author page
“Stage Frights: Theatre Ghost Stories, Vol. 7” (AmericanTheatre.org, October 2022)
For additional installments of the annual Halloween collection of theatrical ghost stories, click here.
“No One Is Alone: Theatre Ghost Stories, Vol. 6” (AmericanTheatre.org, October 2021)
“5 Theatres With Ghost Stories to Raise Your Spirits” (AmericanTheatre.org, October 2020)
“How Willa Kim Stretched and Shaped Costume Design” by Utkarsha Laharia (additional reporting; AmericanTheatre.org, June 2020)
“Black Lives Matter: U.S. Theatres Stand with the Movement for Racial Justice” (with Rob Weinert-Kendt and Allison Considine; AmericanTheatre.org, June 2020)
“Onstage This Week” (with Rob Weinert-Kendt, Allison Considine, and Jerald Raymond Pierce; AmericanTheatre.org, May 2020)
“Tummeling with Jerry Herman” by Jerry Zaks, as told to Russell M. Dembin (American Theatre, March 2020)
“5 Tales of Haunted Theatres to Give You a Fright” (AmericanTheatre.org, October 2019)
“Plenaries of Plenty: Reporting from #TCG19 in Miami” by Rob Weinert-Kendt (additional reporting; AmericanTheatre.org, June 2019)
“2 Plays on 2 Stories of the Same House, at 2 Charlotte Theatres” (AmericanTheatre.org, April 2019)
Additional Writing
The Austin Chronicle author page
“Alice’s Adventures Underground by Oliver Lansley and Anthony Spargo, and: Then She Fell dir. by Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, and Jennine Willett (review)” (Theatre Journal, May 2016)
“Review of Waiting for Godot at Court Theatre, Chicago, 15 January to 15 February 2015. Directed by Ron OJ Parson.” (Journal of Beckett Studies, September 2015)
“Les Misérables – Dallas Theater Center – a revolution in the making” (Musical Theatre Review, August 2014)