Christopher Columbus on Stage: No Respect

New York Theater: In “The Thanksgiving Play,” a satire by Larissa FastHorse that debuted at Playwrights Horizons last year and has become one of the most produced plays throughout the country, Jaxton, the woke high school drama teacher, shows no respect for Christopher Columbus or Columbus Day — just the latest in a long line of theater people to feel that way.

Provoked and Triggered

HowlRound Theatre Commons: As a theatre studies professor at Vanderbilt University, I regularly assign attendance at theatrical performances to my students, and this May I had the opportunity to design a course completely around live performance. Each summer, Vanderbilt offers a series of “maymesters”—month-long intensives held in international locations.