Tuesday, May 22, 2018
The wolf-eyed Erin Markey wants you to be a little scared in the theater, kind of in the way you’re a little scared when you’re talking to someone attractive and you suddenly experience …
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:25PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue — the second installment in the writer’s “Detroit Projects” trilogy and the first production in her current residency at Signature Theatre — i…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:32PMSunday, May 13, 2018
Lest anyone get the idea that I’m summarily anti–Eugene O’Neill, let the record show that quite a few years ago, with the help of suspenders and hair gel and a whiskey bottle full of i…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:03PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Things that happened when I was 13: I played first-chair clarinet in my middle-school band. I tried to kiss my first boy (he was second-chair) while we took a walk in the woods. He didn’t …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, May 7, 2018
In 1976 Caryl Churchill collaborated with Joint Stock Theatre Company for the first time to write a play about revolutionary fervor, apocalyptic visions, political optimism, and a powerful l…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:04PMWe all have that one Onion article that makes us laugh hysterically, then quietly question everything we’ve done with our life. Mine is “New Evidence Reveals Ancient Greeks Immediately R…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:36AMFriday, May 4, 2018
From theater that’s questioning — or celebrating — the theatrical form itself, to theater that’s forging new takes on old stories, to angels and Westerns and wizards, oh my! — this…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:40PMThursday, May 3, 2018
“I’m afraid we have a bad connection,” says the doctor’s son to the preacher’s daughter. They’re speaking over the telephone, but the interference they’re battling isn’t real…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:30PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
The cutest thing about this morning’s Tony nominations was Katharine McPhee’s steadily increasing inability to pronounce the words “SpongeBob SquarePants.” She had to say them a lot …
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:58PMThursday, April 26, 2018
The revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh—now at the Bernard B. Jacobs under the direction of George C. Wolfe and strapped with heavy starpower in Denzel Washington—is the ki…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:30PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
What is it that keeps artists coming back to the story of Joan of Arc, and why do they keep making a royal mess of it? The material is certainly captivating: Lone young woman—champion of f…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, April 23, 2018
“It was a great party,” reminisces one of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical’s three avatars for its central singer, near the end of its speedy 100 minutes. “And I wasn’t just at the…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM“My geekness is a-quiverin’!” a teenage wizard named Scorpius yelps in excitement somewhere around hour five. He’s not the only one. If you’ve ever wanted to experience the feeling…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:33AMThursday, April 19, 2018
A week ago, I wrote about my problems with the current Broadway revival of a very well-loved musical. If shows like Carousel, My Fair Lady, and Kiss Me Kate want to avoid getting shelved, I …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:54PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
I have a thing for the devil. He—or it—is the immortal reject, the essence of loneliness, of the eternally disappointed desire to belong. The devil wants friends. He wants a bit of his o…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMSunday, April 15, 2018
If you climb the stairs to the Public’s Martinson Theater instead of taking the elevator, you’ll learn a few upsetting facts along the way. Posted on the stairwell’s walls in big red d…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMIn a notable instance of one behemoth assessing another, the director Peter Brook once called King Lear “a mountain whose summit has never been reached, the way up strewn with the shattere…
SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AMThursday, April 12, 2018
In 1999 Time magazine proclaimed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel the best musical of the 20th century. Critics, notably the heavy-hitters at the Times, have raved about the sweeping ada…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
I really wanted to like Miss You Like Hell. Maybe that’s a risky thing to admit, since it acknowledges that we—critics, humans—don’t show up to plays in pristine states of impartiali…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, April 9, 2018
It’s a lonely experience to sit in a theater feeling out of sync with the responses around you. Contrary to the popular mythology about critics, it’s not fun to dislike things. It can le…
SOURCE: Vulture at 07:15PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Less than two minutes into the smart, splashy new musical of Tina Fey’s 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, my friend leaned over and whispered delightedly, “This is the most postmodern thing I…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMSunday, March 25, 2018
In 1935 Gertrude Stein spoke about narrative and the passing of time in a series of talks at the University of Chicago. “Twenty-five years roll around very quickly,” she wrote, but “it…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:30PMThursday, March 15, 2018
Are you tired of winter in New York? Does the idea of getting day-drunk at a Sandals resort appeal to you? Does your ideal theatergoing experience occur in a Marriott hotel and feature a lob…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMMonday, March 12, 2018
The world’s most fashionable astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, recently tweeted, “Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:08PMFriday, March 9, 2018
Bruce Norris is like a skilled painter who can’t stand paint. Or a sculptor who’s morally repulsed by clay. He’s a playwright, so his medium is people, and for Norris, people rank some…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:25PMThursday, March 1, 2018
“Confronted with a crisis, what is the artistic impulse?” Jordan Harrison asks us two-thirds of the way through his new play, The Amateurs, now at the Vineyard Theatre under the directio…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:26AMMonday, February 26, 2018
“I don’t want to be tolerated. I want to be respected.”So says Azeem Bhatti, the angry, suffering man at the center of Hammaad Chaudry’s potent An Ordinary Muslim, under the assured …
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:15PMI wrote recently of the blight of mediocre, self-congratulatory, hungry-for-relevance plays on the current theatrical landscape, so it was with some apprehension that I approached JC Lee’s…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
There’s a small play playing on Signature Theatre’s largest stage.Well, in some ways it’s small. In reputation, it’s big. Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo (that’s the legally ma…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
What makes us think that a play like Sarah Burgess’s Kings — now at the Public under the direction of Thomas “I directed Hamilton, maybe you’ve heard of it” Kail — is necessary? …
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMSunday, February 18, 2018
Is God Is. The title of Aleshea Harris’s play is cyclical: a question, followed by an answer, followed by a question. Doubt, certainty, doubt again. The play has cycles built into its DNA:…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:59PM 
