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Ladies and gentleman!

Friday we'll have the guest speakers Leigh Silverman (the director of Yellow Face) and David Korins (its set designer, as well as that of The Receptionist, and Passing Strange [pictured], the musical I'll be in on Broadway beginning this February) in to talk with us. I tried to get Tarell Alvin McCraney, the author of The Brothers Size, to come in, but he's in London. Oh well. But he'd love to read your responses to his play.

Here is the New York Times article about the thrilling version of Lulu I recently saw at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

I also wanted to point you to the deep extent to which critics' influences are felt, even by highly successful playwrights like Jon Robin Baitz. Here's an honest article by him.

Once you've written your reviews, feel free to check out all the press on the plays we've been seeing. One of the best quotes I've seen about Yellow Face is from the author David Henry Hwang himself:

"To what extent do we perform race, either onstage or in life?"

Looking forward to your polished reviews and your creative pieces on Friday.