Featured Writing

Play/Performance Reviews:

• BULRUSHER Stages the Dangers of Identification - Theatrely, 2023

• Politics, Generational Change, and Community in Pearl Cleage’s Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard - 3Views, 2023, co-written with Mekala Sridhar and Divinia Shorter

• In Woolly Mammoth’s INCENDIARY, Dave Harris Doesn’t Pull Any Punches - Theatrely, 2023

  • “Nathan I cannot thank you enough for the rigor and perception with which you wrote this review. It's one of the best pieces of writing about my work that I've ever encountered, and I've felt so invigorated each time I've reread it.” —Dave Harris, Incendiary playwright, on Twitter.

• In GOOD BONES, James Ijames Carefully Approaches the Ugliness of Displacement - Theatrely, 2023

• In Woolly Mammoth’s THERE’S ALWAYS THE HUDSON, Two Survivors Ruthlessly Confront their Pasts - Theatrely, 2022

• The Stunning Reconsiderations of FAIRVIEW at the Wilma Theater - Theatrely, 2022

• Heroes are Toppled and Reborn in Studio Theatre’s JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN - Theatrely, 2022

• Shakespeare Theatre Company’s OUR TOWN is a Transfixing Production of a Well-Worn Classic - Theatrely, 2022

• Studio Theatre’s WHITE NOISE is a Blunt Tragedy for Our Times - Theatrely, 2022

• A STRANGE LOOP Stages an Endless Spiral of Identity, and the Rupture my Hometown Needs - Theatrely, 2021

  • Featured A Strange Loop’s Broadway website during previews in April of 2022.

Q&A Interviews:

• How ‘A Strange Loop’ fits into Black theater legacies - NPR, 2022

  • “I’ve been doggedly avoiding reading any reviews, pans or raves of A Strange Loop but I thought this one was pretty thoughtful and hit on some things that haven’t been said before.” -Michael R. Jackson, Putlizer Prize-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, on Twitter.

  • Featured on Brian Eugenio Herrera’s #TheatreClique newsletter on June 19, 2022.

• Ethan Heard on directing ‘Pacific Overtures’ with an Asian American lens - DC Theater Arts, 2023

• Playwright Martyna Majok on finding hope in impossible situations - DC Theater Arts, 2022

• How Black Women-Led Outdoor Productions of Shakespeare Took NYC by Storm This Summer - Theatrely, 2022

  • Featuring playwright-director Robert O’Hara and professor-director Carl Cofield

Opinions & Think pieces:

• Anonymous Essays: Unnecessary - 3Views, 2023

• Why did the Tonys Reward A STRANGE LOOP This Year, But Not SLAVE PLAY Last Year? - Theatrely, 2022

• DRIVE MY CAR is the Definitive Theatre Film of 2021 - Theatrely, 2022

• To Celebrate SLAVE PLAY, Honor its Black Predecessors that Haven’t Been on Broadway - Theatrely, 2021

  • Shared on Twitter by Slave Play Broadway producer Greg Nobile

• No Matter How You Frame It, Your Vaccine Selfie Might Make Someone Uncomfortable - The Wesleyan Argus, 2021

Short-Form Profiles:

• Benjamin Benne on queer love and Christian faith in Mosaic’s ‘In His Hands’ - DC Theatre Arts, 2022

• Lydia R. Diamond on Arena Stage’s TONI STONE and Contradictions in Black Performance - Theatrely, 2021

Long-Form Profiles:

• Eric Ruffin, Tina Fabrique, and Kim Bey on Mosaic’s MARYS SEACOLE and Black Women Care Work - Theatrely, 2022

• SLAVE PLAY’s Devin Kawaoka on Bringing an Asian American Perspective - Theatrely, 2022

• At the Lincoln Memorial, COME FROM AWAY Commemorates the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 with Triumph and Tears - Theatrely, 2021

  • Mentioned in Brian Eugenio Herrera’s #TheatreClique Round Up Newsletter

3Views Guest Curating:

In February of 2024, Pugh guest curated an issue of 3Views on Theater, covering Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s world premiere production of The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes.

As the site’s inaugural guest curator, Pugh selected the show, hired three contributing writers, edited the writers’ articles, and wrote an editor’s note.

Find all articles published as part of this issue below:

• D.C. as a Home for Artists and Writers: An Editor’s Note - Nathan Pugh

• Editor’s Note: Introducing Guest Curators - 3Views Team

• She Ain’t No Diva: “Class, Bougie, Ratchet” & Exhausted - Tariq O’Meally

• The Duality of Homecoming Dreams and Dread - Kayla Randall

• Sippin’ on Sea Mink-ettes - Sidney Williams

Personal Essays:

• Tender Soil, Quiet Graves: “Minari” and the Growing Canon of Asian American Requiems - The Wesleyan Argus, 2021

• To the Top of the World: How “The Chicks” Helped Me Grieve and Define Home - The Wesleyan Argus, 2020