America is engaged in an agonizing public discussion of the roles, and prerogatives, of our police force in light of recent deaths in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City. Does American Century Theater’s doubleheader, Terry Curtis Fox’s Cops and William Saroyan’s Hello Out There, advance that discussion, and enlighten the way we think about law […]
Archives for January 12, 2015
Jennifer L. Nelson: why she walked out on Theater J
“It’s a hard thing to walk away from work,” Jennifer L. Nelson said during our recent phone conversation. We were talking about her decision, in light of the firing by the DC Jewish Community Center of Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth, to sever her upcoming involvement with Theater J. Nelson was slated to direct […]