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Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation” Maps the Traumas of a Preteen “Chorus Line”
Though woefully late in filing, I was heartened and impressed, as well as moved, by Clare Barron’s strikingly imaginative new play, Dance Nation, running through July 1 at Playwrights Horizons. A sort of preadolescent, pre-professional rethinking of A Chorus Line, Dance Nation follows the adventures of a troupe of small-city dancing kids, ages eleven to […]
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‘Let the Men Be as Bland as Possible’: An Interview With “[Porto]” Playwright Kate Benson
The world is not suffering from a shortage of thinkpieces and essays about urban millennial women. Analyses of relationships dependent on technology, reports of professional advancement (or lack thereof) while competing with men in the workplace — all of these and more proliferate in the blogosphere and in newspapers. But rarely has the theater produced so […]