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Lee Pace, Labels and ‘What are you doing writing about this play?’

I really tried to stay out of some of the debacle around a certain magazine article. But I have always had strong opinions on the ‘shoulds and shouldn’ts around this play. And I also have strong opinions on the labels our so-called community forces on us. So in a blog of two halves, the professional andContinueContinue reading “Lee Pace, Labels and ‘What are you doing writing about this play?’”

More Life for Angels in America (Howlround)

“More Life” is the rallying cry of Prior Walter at the close of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. If a revival is the essence of “more life” for a play, then as the National Theatrein London prepares to “fly” these Angels back to Broadway for the first time in twenty-five years, it seems a fitting point to reflectContinueContinue reading “More Life for Angels in America (Howlround)”

‘More Life’ Angels in America flies back to Broadway

Tonight, the curtain will rise in the Walter Kerr theatre, and Angels in America will be back on Broadway for the first time in over 20 years. I have a more historical, academic post planned for opening night. And it feels right to somehow mark the day on this blog. But for the moment whenContinueContinue reading “‘More Life’ Angels in America flies back to Broadway”

‘More Life’ Angels in America flies back to Broadway

Diversity in Welsh Theatre…once again

This piece was written for BBC Cymru’s blog in Welsh and is available hereA lack of diversity in Welsh arts is driving talent away from the country and severely limiting the work we make. But is this lack of diversity part of an underlying issue in Wales where the arts, and access to the arts,ContinueContinue reading “Diversity in Welsh Theatre…once again”

National Themes: How Britain’s Subsidized Theatre Helped ‘Angels’ Fly

Despite having “America” in its title, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America owes a fair amount of its early development—and its high early profile—to Britain’s National Theatre. And as its first Broadway revival readies its opening in March, almost exactly 25 years since its original Main Stem run, it seems oddly fitting that this new production also comes fromContinueContinue reading “National Themes: How Britain’s Subsidized Theatre Helped ‘Angels’ Fly”

BREAKING OUT OF THE BOX 4: ‘WALES: A DIVERSE NATION?’

The fourth ‘Breaking out of the Box’ symposium- a series of events to discuss the issue of diversity in Welsh Arts, took place at Theatre Clwyd on 16th February.

Project Book update…Painful Progress

I don’t know if I ever intended monthly project book updates but here we go….Well I’ll be honest this isn’t so much of a ‘project book’ update as it will be a general moan about life. But this blog is designed to both document the book-writing process as much as it is to share theContinueContinue reading “Project Book update…Painful Progress”

Project Book update…Painful Progress

Thank You Jonathan Larson (again)

A slight diversion. But as this is the ‘research blog’ it seems only right that I take pause today to talk about the ‘other half’ of my academic life. And so much more. Larson wrote ‘How do you measure a year in the life’ and the more years that go by- in both his workContinueContinue reading “Thank You Jonathan Larson (again)”