Portfolio Highlights

New York Times: “A Puzzle Box of a Play”

American Theatre: “Whitewash ‘In the Heights’?”

onstage during the 70th Annual Tony Awards at The Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2016 in New York City.

American Theatre: “Has Diversity Swept Broadway?”

New York Times: At Clubbed Thumb, Nurturing a Theater of the Weird

American Theatre: Building a Better ‘Mikado,’ Minus the Yellowface

American Theatre Critics Association Keynote Speech

WEST SIDE STORY
Based on a Conception of JEROME ROBBINS

Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS
Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Entire Original Production Directed and
Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS

Originally Produced on Broadway by
Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince

By Arrangement with Roger L. Stevens

The Weill Music Institute presents West Side Story, a work that speaks closely to WMI's mission of supporting music in the community and around the world. Performed at the Knockdown Center—a restored factory in Queens—it features professional artists in lead roles and the participation of high school students and community members from around the city.

Urban Omnibus: “Finding New York in West Side Story”

Salon: “Asian Guys Get to be Sexy Too”

Maxamoo Podcast: “Month in Review”

TDF Stages: “Is This a Fairy Tale or Their Actual Lives?”

American Theatre: “From ‘The Walking Dead’ to ‘Eclipsed,’ Danai Gurira Is Killing It”

New York Times: “Immersive Theater’s Next Stop: A Sexy ’70s Fantasy Island”

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Welcome to the website of Diep Tran, a journalist based in New York City. I'm an associate editor at American Theatre magazine, and my writing has appeared in the New York Times, Time Out New York, TDF Stages, the Sondheim Review and other publications. My main beat is theater (the weirder the better) and I specialize in longform, investigative work. Browse around for clips and blog posts.

Latest Diep Thoughts

2015: The Year of Diversity December 31, 2015
Latest Diep Links December 26, 2015
Milestone of 2015: That Time I Interviewed Lea Salonga…. December 26, 2015
My Super Overdue, Kind of Ridiculous Website Update December 1, 2015
White People Wearing Headdresses in Ridley Scott’s “Exodus” July 11, 2014

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