Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Duncan Macmillan’s merciless, electric People, Places & Things — now playing at St. Ann’s Warehouse in a production from London’s National Theatre — starts with a play and ends…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMWhen you enter the Public’s Shiva Theater for Oedipus El Rey, the setting of Luis Alfaro’s transposition of Sophocles’s tragedy becomes immediately and elegantly clear. The Shiva is a …
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:46PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Early on in The Portuguese Kid, the unconscionable new play by John Patrick Shanley now onstage at MTC, our Real Greek Housewives of New York City heroine, Atalanta Lagana, whines to her law…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, October 23, 2017
When Eugene O’Neill finished Strange Interlude in 1923, he was 35 years old, the same age as his heroine Nina Leeds in the seventh act out of nine in his paradigm-shifting, Pulitzer Prize-…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:49PMBack in August, I compared Second Stage’s production of Bruce Norris’s A Parallelogram to Black Mirror. As I left the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center in the wake of Zoe Kazan’s sh…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:15PMFriday, October 20, 2017
There are a few things Diana Oh doesn’t have time for these days. Notably: assholes and subtlety. A few days ago, I saw Oh — a multitalented dynamo of a performer — in full command of …
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:44PMThursday, October 19, 2017
Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, now receiving its first full revival in 35 years at Second Stage Theater under the direction of Moisés Kaufman, has undergone a makeover. The play is …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:54PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Here are some names you might not know: Oleg Sentsov. Petr Pavlensky. Maria Alyokhina. Here’s one you probably do know: Pussy Riot.The world learned that one in 2012, when three members of…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
In the program for Measure for Measure, now playing at the Public Theater, John Collins, Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service—the downtown theater company known for its exhilaratin…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMWhile watching the Roundabout Theatre Company production of J.B. Priestley’s drawing-room dramedy Time and the Conways, directed by Rebecca Taichman at the American Airlines Theatre, I tho…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00PMThursday, October 5, 2017
Jiréh Breon Holder’s Too Heavy for Your Pocket — now under the brisk, elegant direction of Margot Bordelon at the Roundabout’s Black Box Theatre — takes place during the summe…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00PMMonday, October 2, 2017
In the spirit of “Dear Sugar,” an honest confession: Up till now, I’ve steered clear of the work of Cheryl Strayed. I’m skeptical of Passion Planners, and I make a sharp turn in Barn…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Max Posner’s The Treasurer, now playing at Playwrights Horizons under the assured and gentle direction of David Cromer, is a quiet revelation. At a moment when the theatrical landscape is …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:07PMMonday, September 25, 2017
How do we look at the Other who seems monstrous? Well, sometimes a story pins our eyes open and won’t let us blink. By now, the world knows the wily, vicious Alex DeLarge quite well, be it…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:17PMFriday, September 22, 2017
When my grandmother, Jong Gung Hong, was a young girl, her father piled the family into a small boat, covered the children with a tarp, and left their home near Pyongyang. She grew up in wha…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, September 18, 2017
“Just because you got an ugly past, that don’t mean you can’t have a beautiful future.”So says the inimitable Mama Darleena Andrews in Philip Dawkins’s aptly named Charm, directed …
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:30PMThursday, September 14, 2017
I hope it’s not giving too much away to say that the final image in Sarah Ruhl’s For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, directed by Les Waters at Playwrights Horizons, is, literally and fig…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:35AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Simon Stephens’s On the Shore of the Wide World, now playing at Atlantic Theater Company, takes its name from a sonnet by Keats. It’s the kind of play where a character quotes part of th…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMThursday, August 24, 2017
“Everybody talks about their career in the theater,” says actor Brandon Uranowitz at the start of Prince of Broadway, “but rarely does anybody talk about luck.” Good fortune is a rec…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMThursday, August 10, 2017
The Terms of My Surrender, the new solo show by filmmaker and self-described “high-profile shit-stirrer” Michael Moore, isn’t a play. It’s a pep rally.Or, to get really American with…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:00PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
In the cramped backstage space behind the seating bank at the tiny HB Playwrights Theatre in the West Village, playwright Torrey Townsend is ripping the American Theater a new one. It’s th…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:10AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
After Bruce Norris’s A Parallelogram at Second Stage Theater, I stood outside and cried on the sidewalk.Okay, so it had been a long day, but I would be lying if I said that the restless, d…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Last Thursday, we lost an artist as mythic in stature as the great tall tale heroes of the Old West. Sam Shepard — playwright, actor, Pulitzer Prize–winner, musician, and rancher, to nam…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:21PMMonday, July 31, 2017
When I was a kid, I had a friend who loved icing but hated cake. At her birthday parties, I would sit at the table with a bunch of other slightly uncomfortable elementary school girls, while…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, July 17, 2017
A little over a third of the way into the modestly dressed, disarmingly brilliant production of Hamlet now playing at the Public, Oscar Isaac as the iconic prince turns to us before one of h…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:18PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Truly, it’s all about that banner: hanging there in all its Instagrammable glory, its purpose seems to be to absolve Joan of Arc’s creators of all artistic and political rigor for the ne…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:12PM 
