How Sara Holdren Made the Best of a Bad Night of Musical Theater

A pan of Joan of Arc: Into the Fire leads to the prestigious perch of New York magazine theater critic

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On April 3, Sara Holdren, a theater director, theater company owner and formal student of the art published a review on CultureBot of the Public Theater production Joan of Arc: Into the Fire. It was her first published theater review, to go along with academic writings that culminated in a 2015 MFA from Yale Drama School.

While there aren’t too many reader comments sitting below the piece, what is there amounts to a cumulative, powerful rave:

John Geoffrion: This might be the greatest theater review I’ve read in years.

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