Blighted Spirit by JEREMY McCARTER

It's a strange business, dealing with a living legend.
Rose's Dilemma and Dinner with Demons.

The Director We Love to Hate (and Love) by JEREMY McCARTER

New York's critics speak out on Simon McBurney.

Down & Out in the Hollywood Hills by JEREMY McCARTER

At an approximate ratio of one line of blow for every two lines of dialogue, you will see a substantial chunk of the Colombian economy consumed before the night is through.

A Wintry Mix by JEREMY McCARTER

At just 40, Chen Shi-Zheng has emerged as one of our most original and gifted directors.

Speak, Diary by JEREMY McCARTER

Styles change, fashions come and go, but writers find one subject eternally fascinating: writers.

Mediocrity Tonight by JEREMY McCARTER

Mamet's Court Is in Hysterics by JEREMY McCARTER

What the hell has gotten into David Mamet?

Beyond Therapy by JEREMY McCARTER

How about a 50-year moratorium on shrinks?
Sea of Tranquility, Beautiful Child.

One Stripper, One Vote by JEREMY McCARTER

Stephen Jay Gould, meet Gypsy Rose Lee.

Sondheim Shoots and Scores by JEREMY McCARTER

In "Assassins", Stephen Sondheim subverts everything--even himself.

Critic Rising

The Sun editors on Jeremy McCarter.

Linda Emond: The Exit Interview by JEREMY McCARTER

If you're the sort of person who regards having to speak in public as the most fiendish torture imaginable, Linda Emond will strike you as either (a) very brave or (b) utterly mad.

Light That Shines Again by JEREMY McCARTER

"Love's young dream" in a new revival of "Sight Unseen".

Onstage, Some Ideas Whose Time Has Gone by MICHAEL FRIEDMAN

One composer's "highly informal, painfully biased, and infinitely expandable moratorium for the American theater".

The Essential Kaufman by JEREMY McCARTER

Having long ago attained immortality, George S. Kaufman now achieves respectability.

Sheridan in Love (and War) by JEREMY McCARTER

Think of Sheridan as the anti-O'Neill.

The Better Angels of Tony Kushner by JEREMY McCARTER

Nothing obscures like praise.

Sam Shepard's Failed Experiment by JEREMY McCARTER

We are all Randy Quaid now.

PROFILE: RON LASKO

Guiding the Fringe Into the Mainstream By ROBERT SIMONSON

Simon Scardifield: The Exit Interview by JEREMY McCARTER

The star of BAM's "Midsummer Night's Dream" on playing Puck, wearing a tutu, and waiting for Harvey Keitel.

Absinthe Makes the Art Go Wander by JEREMY McCARTER

Say hello to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. (And to Dame Edna.)

A Story, or History by JEREMY McCARTER

"Caroline, or Change"

Bugging Out by JEREMY McCARTER

Great waves of creepiness are emanating from the Barrow Street Theatre.

Life in a Cabaret by JEREMY McCARTER

Billy Porter's "Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am)" sounds like autobiography, but at heart it's a love story, subgenre: showbiz.

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner by JEREMY McCARTER

Before Mamet, before LaBute, but after the Book of Job, there was Harold Pinter. People in his world are forever menaced by powers outside their control, a spectacle that can be as funny as it is grisly. How many of his characters could echo Gloucester, the haggard, sightless wretch of "King Lear," who cries, "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. / They kill us for their sport"?

The Butcher & The Baker by JEREMY McCARTER

How do you solve a problem like Judea?

It Came from the Eighties by JEREMY McCARTER

"Taboo" did not open last night as much as it burst, then oozed all over its audience. The musical whisks us back to early-1980s London, the New Romantic period, when if you didn't show up a…

Bhangra Chameleon by JEREMY McCARTER

I do so like what grandma calls "shouty shouty pop music."

Adult Entertainment (Finally) by JEREMY McCARTER

Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas fight a new-old fight.

Brecht Hopped the "A" Train by JEREMY McCARTER

Mother Courage, meet Halliburton.

Life Upon the Wicked World Stage by JEREMY McCARTER

Backstage trysts in "Small Tragedy", prison blues in "In the Belly of the Beast Revisited".