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 Whittington has participated on the poetry series Voice in Philadelphia and has written two (unpublished) books of poetry.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 Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is an expansive retrospective of the artist’s artwork co-presentation of by The Whitney Museum
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal | photo credit: Erik Carter Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon is a continuing remote symposium of text,
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal One of the breakouts hits of the 2020 Virtual Fringe is ‘Fun With Dick and Jane: working
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Filmmaker David Gordon, a founding member of the legendary 60s dance collective at the Judson Church, established
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal As the Coronavirus rages on, colleges and universities have been pressured to re-open their campuses, most designing
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Since 1996, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival has occurred on a variety of venues throughout the city with
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal In a wide-ranging interview from her home in West Philadelphia, Philadanco founding artistic director Joan Myers Brown
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal The groundswell of solidarity across racial lines for the Black Lives Matter movement has galvanized the national
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal On a frigid winter night in Philadelphia in 1993 at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, the dancers of
