
Eric Grode
Director
- Goldring Arts Journalism
Also teaches in:
- Goldring Arts Journalism
- Magazine, News and Digital Journalism
Contact Information
- ejgrode@syr.edu
- (315) 443-2305
Office Location
332-A Newhouse 2
Expertise
- Arts Journalism
- Media Coverage of Arts and Culture
- Cultural Storytelling
- Popular Culture
- Editing
Eric Grode is a regular freelance theater critic and reporter for The New York Times. He previously served as the head theater critic for The New York Sun and Broadway.com, and his articles and reviews have also appeared in The Village Voice, New York magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, The Boston Phoenix and more than a dozen other publications. He has received fellowships from American Theatre magazine and the American Theater Critics Association.
Grode has held full-time editorial jobs at TV Guide, Good Housekeeping and XXL (where he served as managing editor). He is the former vice president of the New York Drama Critics Circle and the author of two books: “Hair: The Story of the Show That Defined a Generation,” the authorized history of the Broadway musical, and "The Book of Broadway: The 150 Definitive Plays and Musicals."
In addition to his work with the Goldring Arts Journalism Program, with which he has been affiliated since 2007, Grode has taught at Lehman College and the University of Rochester Medical School.
Headlines
- Grode reviews Irving Berlin biography for New York Times
- Grode writes about the Metropolitan Opera's translated 'Porgy and Bess' for The New York Times
- Chicago Tribune talks to Grode about trusting journalists on junkets
- Grode writes about the history of controversial plays for New York Times theater section
- Grode writes about "Everything is Wonderful" for New York Times Theater section
- Grode pens two New York Times theater articles