Joel Lobenthal is dance critic for the New York Sun and assistant editor of Ballet Review.

He is the author of RADICAL RAGS: Fashions of the Sixties (Abbeville, 1990), and TALLULAH! The Life and Times of a Leading Lady (ReganBooks, 2004-Harper Collins [paper] 2008.)

He has written for Dance Magazine, Playbill, Quest and the New York Times.