Press & Posts:

A. Roth

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Personal Statement: A Founding Artistic Director Resigns
by Ari Roth (November, 2020)

A December Note: Small Steps & Gestures (December, 2020)

The Day Before Turning 60 (January, 2021)

Please click below to read about Ari Roth in The New York Times

“A Second Sudden Exit for a Hard-Charging Artistic Director” (2020)

“Directors’ Letter Protests Firing of Theater J’s Artistic Director: About 60 [ed. 120] theater directors have signed a letter protesting the firing of Ari Roth as artistic director of Theater J in Washington” (2014)

“Fresh Life for Madoff Play in Washington: A revised version of the play, ‘Imagining Madoff’ by Deborah Margolin will open on August 31” (2011)

& “Washington Theater To Put On Madoff Play” (2011)

“Theater Cancels Play With Wiesel Character” (2010)

“The Premier Theater for Premieres: Joyce Carole Oates play ‘The Tattooed Girl’ had its premiere there last year” (2005)

“Theater Review; Angst, Guilt, Lust and Loneliness
(‘Prelude To A Crisis’ review, Peter Marks, 1998)

“Review/Theater; At Large: The Sins of the Nazi Fathers”
(‘Born Guilty’ review, 1993)

Please click below to read about Ari Roth in The Washington Post

“In a stunning turn, Ari Roth resigns from Mosaic Theater, the D.C. company he created” (2020)

“How are Washington theaters doing when it comes to producing plays by women?” (2018)

“What happens when a play about Palestinians goes to American campuses”
(2018)

“Notes on political theater: The perils of spectacle” (2016)

“Wrestling Jerusalem’ revives Roth’s Middle East Festival at Mosaic” (2016)

“Mosaic opens its inaugural curtain with ‘Unexplored Interior’” (2015)

“Mosaic hangs out its theatrical shingle: Born out of controversy, a company of serious dramatic pursuit starts up on H Street NE” (2015)

“Act II, Scene 1: H Street NE, Enter ARI ROTH with friends” (2015)

“Artistic directors from across the country denounce Ari Roth's firing from Theater J (2014) & “Another Open Letter Protests Ari Roth’s Firing” (2014)

& “Ari Roth's swift departure from Theater J follows a tumultuous tenure: Roth's choice of controversial productions for the Jewish theater infuriated some activists” (2014)

& Ari Roth’s Provocative Tenure (2014) & Letters to the Editor (2014) & “Ari Roth: Brave Artist or Enemy of Israel?” (more Letters to the Editor, 2014)

“For Jewish groups, a stand-off between open debate and support of Israel: The JCC's awkward about-faces reflect the explosive power of Middle East politics, the especially sensitive terrain on which Washington's Jewish institutions operate, and increasing polarization within American Jewry”
(2014)

“Theater J stages its pressure play: 'The Admission' put the company at the center of a controversy over rumors of a wartime massacre” (2014)

& “Motti Lerner's controversial play 'The Admission' gets another life: Lerner's play about an event tearing an Israeli and a Palestinian family apart returns”
(2014)

“Theater J scales back plans to stage controversial play ‘The Admission’”
(2013)

“‘Return to Haifa' at Theater J: A Jewish refugee's heartfelt tale” (2011)

“Backstage: For Theater J, breaking a leg for real leads to 'Yellow Face' recasting scramble: When an actor in "Yellow Face" broke his ankle, Theater J's artistic director Ari Roth took to the stage” (2014)

Please click below to read about Ari Roth in Washingtonian Magazine

“Making Art in the Shadow of History. The Theater J artistic director looks to his own heritage in the world premiere play ‘Andy and the Shadows’” (2013)

“Ari Roth Talks About His Controversial Firing and What Comes Next: Theater J's former director will resurface in October with a new company” (2015)

“Ari Roth’s Firing From Theater J Is Part of a Larger Conflict About Jewish Criticism of Israel: Roth was officially fired for talking to the media, but it's really about the future of the American Jewish community” (2014)

The Wilson Center: “Ari Roth and Transformational Theater” (2017)

Click to read more American Theatre Magazine & HowlRound

“Two Years After Launching Mosaic, Ari Roth Reflects” (HowlRound, 2017)

“Ari Roth and Kate Schecter Take on the World Together: Whether they’re at home or abroad, the couple makes international stories and activism a priority (AT, Theatre Couples, 2016)

“The Personal Versus the Political in 2 Israeli Plays: Both Motti Lerner’s ‘After the War’ and David Grossman’s ‘Falling Out of Time’ engage with loss, but in wildly different ways” (AT, 2015)

“An Interview With Former Theater J Artistic Director, Ari Roth”
(P. Carl, HR, 2014)

“The Facts on the Ground at Theater J: The backstage drama between D.C.’s influential Jewish theatre and its former artistic director Ari Roth has been as riveting, and as disputed, as anything on its stage” (AT, 2014)

“Heated Dialogue, Onstage and Off, at Theater J: As the leader of D.C.’s Jewish theatre, Ari Roth works to keep the dialogue going, even—or especially—when it’s contentious” (AT, 2013)

“Reagan's Legacy/Zelda's Children: The Explosion of DC Theater”
by Ari Roth (HR, 2012)

Click to read more in the Washington City Paper

“Personal is Heretical: Theater J's ‘Andy and the Shadows’”
(Chris Klimek blog reflection, 2013)

“Theater J’s Ari Roth Writes a Play…About Me”
(Jonathan L. Fischer, 2012)

“‘Imagining Madoff’ Will Open Theater J’s 2011-2012 Season“
(Behind the Scenes, 2011)

“Who’s Afraid of Elie Wiesel? Theater J's Ari Roth was always willing to defy any critic. So why did he cave to a Nobel laureate?” (2010)

“Arts Roundup: Danging Participle Edition” (2011)

& “Dunder Mifflin on 16th Street: On the Theater J blog, publicist Grace Overbeke invokes The Office” (Theater J Work Culture” (2011)