Alisa Solomon

Biographic Data

ID3868932
NAMEAlisa Solomon
GIVEN NAMESAlisa
FAMILY NAMESolomon
SIGNATURESOLOMON A
AFFILIATIONSAlisa Solomon is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the MA concentration in Arts and Culture. She has published in The Nation, the Forward, the New York Times, and was on staff at the Village Voice for 21 years. She is author of Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender (Routledge, 1997) and editor of three anthologies: Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Tony Kushner;...
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • María Irene Fornés in Context

    Eric Mayer-García, Elaine Romero et al.BOOKMaría Irene Fornés in Context2025

  • My Epistemological Crisis

    Alisa SolomonARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2016

    What has happened to evidence, rationality, and critical thinking at a time when Donald Trump’s mendacious performance of guilelessness commands the airwaves, and when the news industry — especially arts criticism — has foundered

  • Balancing Act

    Alisa SolomonARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2011

    The Bottle Dance in Fiddler on the Roof was inspired by what the director/choreographer Jerome Robbins called “field research” at Orthodox Jewish weddings. Reshaped and expanded by Robbins's masterful showbiz sensibility, it became a show-stopping number—and, thus transformed, filtered back out of the musical into Jewish celebrations to confer “tradition.”

  • Pleasure and Freedom

    Alisa SolomonARTICLESocial Text2007

    Research Article| March 01 2007 Pleasure and Freedom: REMEMBERING ELLEN WILLIS Alisa Solomon Alisa Solomon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 135–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-022 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alisa Solomon; Pleasure and Freedom: REMEMBERING ELLEN WILLIS. Social Text 1 March 2007; 25 (1 (90)): 135–136. doi: https://doi.…

  • Not Just a Passing Fancy

    Alisa SolomonARTICLETheater1993

    Research Article| May 01 1993 Not Just a Passing Fancy: Notes on Butch Alisa Solomon Alisa Solomon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Theater (1993) 24 (2): 35–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/01610775-24-2-35 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alisa Solomon; Not Just a Passing Fancy: Notes on Butch. Theater 1 May 1993; 24 (2): 35–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01…

  • Paradise Lost

    Alisa SolomonARTICLETDR/The Drama Review1993

    is the 'gos, so there aren't any pickets this time. No padlocks, no cops confiscating scenery, no sit-ins, no final defiant performances with spectators coming into the theatre by climbing a ladder and squeezing through a window. That was 1963, and the Living Theatre was being evicted from its I4th Street space for nonpayment of taxes. Quarantined in the theatre's office, Julian Beck, the LT's late codirector, watched IRS agents lumber through th…

  • The Politics of Breast Cancer

    Alisa SolomonARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1992Cited by: 8

    Research Article| January 01 1992 The Politics of Breast Cancer Alisa Solomon Alisa Solomon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (1 (28)): 156–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-10-1_28-156 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alisa Solomon; The Politics of Breast Cancer. Camera Obscura 1 January 1992; 10 (1 (28)): 156–177. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-…

  • Queer Justice

    Alisa SolomonARTICLETheatre Journal1990

  • Interview

    Charles L Mee, Alisa SolomonARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1988

  • American Set Design

    Alisa Solomon, Arnold AronsonARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1985

  • The WOW Cafe

    Alisa SolomonARTICLEThe Drama Review TDR1985Cited by: 1

  • Rehearsals of Revolution

    Alisa Solomon, Rustom BharuchaARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1984

  • Bertolt Brecht Short Stories 1921-1946

    Alisa Solomon, John Willett et al.ARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1984

  • Good

    Alisa Solomon, C P Taylor et al.ARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1983

  • The Marionette Theatre of Meyer Levin

    Alisa SolomonARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1983

  • From Stereotype to Metaphor

    Alisa Solomon, Ellen Schiff et al.ARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1983

  • A Susan Sontag Reader

    Alisa Solomon, Susan SontagARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1983

  • Women in Theatre

    Alisa Solomon, Karen MalpedeARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1983

  • About Face

    Alisa Solomon, Dario Fo et al.ARTICLEPerforming Arts Journal1983

  • Cloud Nine

    Alisa Solomon, Caryl ChurchillARTICLETheatre Journal1982