Wendell Writes About
Dance, Theater, Books

• GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS: Tharp! is Less than the Sum of its Parts. First published in Bay Area Reporter, September 26, 1996, p. 43. © Wendell Ricketts, 1988, 2003. All rights reserved.

• GENDER AGENDA: Learning to count higher than two. (Hidden: A Gender) First published in Bay Area Reporter, December 7, 1989, pp. 28, 52. © Wendell Ricketts, 1989, 2003. All rights reserved.

• MASTER OF THE ZEITGEIST (Review of Morrisroe's Mapplethorpe: A Biography)First published in the Bay Area Reporter, July 20, 1995, pp. 29, 35. © Wendell Ricketts, 1995, 2003. All rights reserved.

• THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING ZORA: Ellen Sebastian's The Sanctified Church honors Zora Neale Hurston. First published in Bay Area Reporter, March 31, 1988, p. 26. © Wendell Ricketts, 1988, 2003. All rights reserved.

• AIDS: WORDS FROM THE FRONT: The death of Rudolf Nureyev has refocused attention on AIDS in the dance profession. But why are so many industry leaders tap-dancing around the issue?" First published in Spin, May 1993, pp. 71-73. © Wendell Ricketts, 1993, 2003. All rights reserved.

• STEP LIVELY: ROBERT HENRY JOHNSON COMPANY IN FOURTH-SEASON OPENER. Johnson's July 11th opening was the most impressive showing he could have made of six years of achievement-and of the themes and dynamics he has, in a sense, made his own.... First published in Bay Area Reporter, July 18, 1996. © Wendell Ricketts, 1996, 2003. All rights reserved.

• LESBIANS AND GAY MEN ON STAGE: A NECESSARILY INCOMPLETE HISTORY. A version of this essay appeared in Out in All Directions: The Almanac of Lesbian and Gay America, 1995. © Wendell Ricketts, 1995, 2003. All rights reserved.