Lewis Whittington is an arts journalist based in Philadelphia. He started writing professionally in the early 90s as a media consultant for an AIDS organizations and then as a theater and dance reviewer for the Philadelphia Gay News. Mr. Whittington has covered dance, theater, opera and classical music for the Philadelphia Inquirer and City Paper.
Mr. Whittington’s arts profiles, features, and stories have appeared in The Advocate, Dance International, Playbill, American Theatre, American Record Guide, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, EdgeMedia, and Philadelphia Dance Journal. Mr. Whittington has received two NEA awards for journalistic excellence.
In addition to interviews with choreographers, dancers, and artistic directors from every discipline, he has interviewed such music luminaries from Ned Rorem to Eartha Kitt. He has written extensively on gay culture and politics and is most proud of his interviews with such gay rights pioneers as Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings.
Mr. Whittington has participated on the poetry series Voice in Philadelphia and has written two (unpublished) books of poetry. He is currently finishing Beloved Infidels, a play about the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. His editorials on GLBTQ activism, marriage equality, gay culture and social issues have appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, and The Advocate.
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Group Motion is about to commemorate their 50th anniversary season and co-directors Brigitta Herrmann and Manfred Fischbeck
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal L.A. based choreographer Ann Carlson’s Doggie Hamlet was the centerpiece dance event at the opening weekend of
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal The 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts has turned into a showcase for aerial choreography from
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Because dance is, mostly a form of non–verbal communication that uses various disciplines, traditions, methods of performance
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Séancers is Jaamil Oswala Kosoko’s performance piece, part memoir, part physical theater happening, a public séance as a
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal | Photo credit: Ted Lieverman After seven years, choreographer Brian Sanders reanimates his dancing zombies in a reboot
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal| photo credit: Arian Molina Soca The 26th annual Shut Up & Dance benefit for MANNA staged by
by Lewis J. Whittington for The Dance Journal At Philadanco in West Philadelphia two Sunday’s ago, artistic director Joan Myers Brown was personally taking care
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Late in March, The Koresh Dance Company’s dancers were just back from winter touring and ensconced in
