Shoshana writes about theater with special interests in musical theater and women artists. She has contributed to American Theatre Magazine, Theatermania, Women and Hollywood, The Interval, Culturadar.com, The Dramatists Guild Fund blog, Howlround, and The Huffington Post. She was also a contributing editor for Musical Theater Today.
“Meet Nitra McAuliffe, Coauthor of Broadway’s Rarely Seen Musical The Lieutenant“
Theatermania; September 13, 2023
“A Composer/Singer Collaboration That’s in the Show’s DNA: Madeline Myers has written the new musical ‘Double Helix’ with and for its lead performer, Samantha Massell, who plays a woman scientist unjustly neglected by history.“
American Theatre Magazine; June 8, 2023
“Itamar Moses: Every Day He Writes the Book: A playwright who finds writing musicals both impossible and irresistible, he has a new adaptation of ‘An American Tail’ opening at Children’s Theatre Company.“
American Theatre Magazine; April 20, 2023
“Revisiting the Elián Drama at Miami New Drama: A new play by Rogelio Martinez returns to a painful and contested piece of post-Cold War history and attempts to reckon with its wounds and lessons.“
American Theatre Magazine; October 28, 2022
“A Homecoming to ‘Knoxville’: A new musical based on Agee’s ‘Death in the Family’ from Ahrens, Flaherty, and Galati debuts at Florida’s Asolo Rep, almost exactly 2 years after COVID shut it down.“
American Theatre Magazine; April 26, 2022
“Director/Deviser: Tina Satter: The downtown artist didn’t ever expect or hope to be on Broadway, but her docutheatre piece ‘Is This A Room’ has defied expectations all along.“
American Theatre Magazine; September 22, 2021.
“Thoughts on Bridgerton: The Musical and Other TikTok FanMusicals“
Downstage Media; February 22, 2021
“With (Robot) Love From Korea“
American Theatre Magazine; January 17, 2020
“Michael R. Jackson: What If?“
American Theatre Magazine; March 28, 2019
“Female Lighting Designers: Past, Present, and Future“
The Interval; January 16, 2018
“Daniel Handler’s First Play, Inspired by—What Else?—an Unfortunate Event“
American Theatre Magazine; September 20, 2017
“7 Women of Theatre History You Should Know: Part Four“
The Interval; September 19, 2017
“Kirsten Childs Thinks Big“
American Theatre Magazine; May, 15, 2017
“Searching for Charlotte Zaltzberg: the Legacy of a Lost Female Writer“
The Interval; May 11, 2017
“7 Women of Theatre History You Should Know: Part Three“
The Interval; March 7, 2017
“‘Fun Home’ Writers Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron on Saying Goodbye to Broadway“
Women and Hollywood; September 8, 2016
“The Revolutionary ‘Fun Home’ Ends Its Broadway Run“
Women and Hollywood; September 7, 2016
“7 More Women of Theatre History You Should Know“
The Interval; August 15, 2016
“Continued Creativity: Wall to Wall Stephen Schwartz at Symphony Space“
The Huffington Post; April 14, 2016
“Making Some Kind of Difference in the World: Tuck Everlasting‘s Claudia Shear Brings a Young Girl’s Story to Broadway“
The Huffington Post; April 12, 2016
“For Michael John LaChiusa, When It Rains It Pours“
American Theatre Magazine; March 16, 2016
“7 Women of Theatre History You Should Know“
The Interval; March 14, 2016
“Spring 2016 Women on Broadway Preview: Milestones and Misses“
Women and Hollywood; January 27, 2016
“Where Does This Diverse Broadway Season Leave Women of Color?“
Women and Hollywood; October 26, 2015
“Saying Goodbye to ‘Mamma Mia!,’ a Musical That Was Far More than ‘Fluff’“
Women and Hollywood; September 11, 2015
“Fall 2015 Preview: A Step Backward for Women“
Women and Hollywood; September 1, 2015
More articles:
Women and Hollywood
How The Lilly Awards Help Make Women’s Stories Matter (6/4/15)
Why Wendy Wasserstein’s ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ is Still Relevant Today (5/1/15)
Keeping Score: A Record Number of Female Composers on Broadway (3/3/15)
Spring 2015 Theatre Preview: Women on Broadway (1/20/15)
Dramatists Guild Fund
Adam Overett (8/21/2014)
Timothy Huang (6/20/2014)
Gordon Leary and Julia Meinwald (5/23/2014)
Daniel S. Acquisto and Sammy Buck (4/23/2014)
Ryan Scott Oliver (3/25/2014)
Huffington Post (selections)
The Composers Speak: Broadway Composers Participate in a Concert of Their Choral Work (4/6/15)
A Sonic Story: Putting Together Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks (7/2/14)
Helping To Comfort: Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die Gets an Album (9/3/2013)
Looking for Connection: The Journey of the New Musical Nobody Loves You to Off-Broadway (7/18/2013)
For more Huffington Post blogs, click here.
For Autism Awareness Day on the Huffington Post:
The Light of Awareness: Autism Awareness Day and the Search for Avonte (4/2/14)
(Much has changed since I wrote this piece. I’m not able to update it, but if I could I would update some of the language describing Autism and Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day and take out the reference to Autism Speaks.)
Howlround.com
Valuing the MFA (7/25/2013)