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Hello, hello!

In this week's Sunday arts section of The New York Times, I have a splashy feature covering the New York International Fringe Festival. You can read it here.

Have a great weekend! (Or week, if you're not reading this until Monday.)

So I've just published my first story in Time Out New York. It's a feature about transgender performance artist Scott Turner Schofield and his refusal to stop calling himself trans, even though he now passes for a biological man.

A 700 word feature doesn't give me room to dig into the issue with all the depth I'd like, of course, but I think it offers a nice jumping-off point for a conversation about labeling and identity within the trans community.

Hope you enjoy!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to direct your attention to an article I just published in "American Theatre" magazine about a theater company called The Civilians. In February, I lived with them for a week in Colorado Springs, Colorado, observing their creation of a documentary-style musical about the influence of Evangelical Christianity on the local community.

Hope you enjoy!

(If you'd like to see the story in print, you can find the piece in the July/August 2007 issue)

There's a play on in New York whose story is based on the letters between Simone de Beauvoir and her lover, the American author Nelson Algren. "Transatlantic Liason", by Fabrice Rozié, runs through early April. (Can I get to NYC...