J. Wynn Rousuck
Midday Theater CriticJ. Wynn Rousuck has been reviewing theater for WYPR's Midday (and previously, Maryland Morning) since 2007. Prior to that, she was the theater critic of The Baltimore Sun, where she reviewed more than 3,000 plays over the course of 23 years.
Her feature coverage for The Sun included a comprehensive series chronicling the development of the Tony Award-winning musical, “Hairspray.” Judy got her start at The Cleveland Press and at Cleveland’s fine arts radio station, WCLV. Her broadcasting experience also includes a year as an on-air theater critic for Maryland Public Television.
A member of the Artistic Advisory Committee of Young Audiences of Maryland, Judy is also a freelance teacher for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and the Hippodrome Foundation, Inc. (the Hippodrome’s non-profit partner, which focuses on education and outreach). She was a faculty member at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Critics Institute in Waterford, CT, for two decades; she is a former National Endowment for Humanities Journalism Fellow; and she was a visiting student at Brown University (2007-2008), under the mentorship of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Paula Vogel. Judy and her husband, Alan Fink, share their home with two dogs, who enjoy hearing their “Master’s Voice” on WYPR.
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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights the Tony Award-winning 2019 musical that blends two mythic tales into a haunting theatrical experience.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck describes the STC & Woolly Mammoth co-production as an immersive - and moving - exploration of the refugee experience.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Adam Rapp's 2018 drama, on stage now at Everyman Theatre, about a fateful intertwining of art and life.
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Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights how Cheryl Strayed's bestselling digest of her "Dear Sugar" personal advice columns has been movingly adapted to the stage.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the touring company production of Harper Lee's beloved story about racial justice in the Jim Crow South, in a new stage adaptation by Aaron Sorkin, at the Hippodrome.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights the Kennedy Center's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1987 fairy-tale musical.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights Fells Point Corner Theatre's new production of Sarah Ruhl's 2007 digital-age comedy.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights playwright Regina Taylor's joyful musical tribute to traditional Black churches, in an Artscentric production at Baltimore Center Stage.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights the Rep Stage production of a new work by playwright Dane Figueroa Edidi that explores themes of race, gender and history.
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Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck spotlights a new production of Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin's play about four teen girls trying to create a safe space amid the pressures and perils of high-school life.