Category: Articles
Pieces written and published for various publications.
Writer, Teacher, Historian
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A Look Back: Celebrate 75 Years of the Fringe
Since 1947, theatre artists and aficionados alike have traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and in commemoration, Playbill is looking back on how a handful of independent theatre companies inspired the largest arts festival in the world. Read the article
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Shedding “Green Green Dress”: How Lin-Manuel Miranda Redefined Tick, Tick…Boom!
Why did Miranda cut an iconic song from his film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s musical?
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A Comprehensive Guide to Theatrical References in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 4
This is the fourth part of our season-by-season rundown of Broadway showtunes and references by episode.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Theatrical References in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 3
This is the third part of our season-by-season rundown of Broadway showtunes and references by episode.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Theatrical References in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 2
This is the second part of our season-by-season rundown of Broadway showtunes by episode.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Theatrical References in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 1
This is the first part of our season-by-season rundown of Broadway showtunes by episode.
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Sound Designer Jessica Paz Talks About the Art Behind the Things You Hear in the Theater
Paz was the first woman to win a Sound Design Tony, for her work on Hadestown.
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Remembering Stephen Sondheim, the Man
Sondheim, dead at 91, lived long enough to see his own legacy form, for better or for worse.
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Twenty-Five Years Later, a Post-Mort on Boublil and Schönberg’s Martin Guerre
In the late 1990s, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil were on the precipice of wearing the triple crown. Their first collaboration, Les Misérables, became a worldwide sensation after its premiere in 1985; their next show, Miss Saigon, broke ticket sale records in both London and New York. In 1995, they announced their third project, a…
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Steve Cuiffo on Creating the Lip-Synch Magic of Dana H.
Dana H. is an entirely lip-synched play, crafted from interviews with playwright Lucas Hnath’s mother. Deirdre O’Connell plays Dana without ever uttering a word, instead delivering a remarkably layered lip-synch performance as Dana shares her story in her own words.Steve Cuiffo, an artist who combines magic, illusion, lip-synch techniques, and theater, served as the illusion…