American Theatre, the monthly theatre magazine which yearly names a few theatre journalists to a year-long affiliation with the title, has announced this year's crop of young scribes. They are Eric Grode and Elizabeth Kaiden of New York and Wendy Weisman of St. Paul, MN.
The trio of writers will be given a stipend and writing opportunities at the magazine during the 2002-03 season.
Grode is an assistant editor of The Sondheim Review and writes the "Stage to Screen" column for Playbill On-Line. Kaiden has written about theatre for such publications as Stagebill and American Theatre itself. Finally, Weisman has contributed to the Minnesota Daily.
Past member of the Affliliated Writers Program include Alexis Greene, Alexis Soloski, Randy Gener and others.
—By Robert Simonson