Interviewing the Audience Chats You Up by Michael Feingold

The Vineyard Theatre's new show takes its format from Spalding Gray

Thinking About Theater: America's Greatest Woman Playwright (Maybe) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: ''Lear'', There, and Everywhere (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: ''Lear'', There and Everywhere: Notes on a Tormenting Play by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Me, the World, and ''The Killer'' (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Me, the World, and ''The Killer'' by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Gilbert & Sullivan & ... the Marx Brothers? (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Theater News: Gilbert & Sullivan & ... Frankenstein? by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Credits, or Credibility? (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Credits, or Credibility? by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Connecting with Brecht (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Connecting With Brecht by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Lives, Saved or Lost (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Lives, Saved or Lost by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: The Children's (Shining) Hour (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: The Children’s (Shining) Hour by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: The Common Sense of Shakespeare (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: The Common Sense of Shakespeare by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Secrets of Pleasurable Theatergoing (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: Secrets of Pleasurable Theatergoing by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: People for (or Against) the People's Opera (Part II) by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: People for (or Against) the People’s Opera by Michael Feingold

Thinking About Theater: ReGoogling of Things Past (Part II) by Michael Feingold

This is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. Because such vast amounts of archival material are now online, with more arriving da…

Thinking About Theater: ReGoogling of Things Past by Michael Feingold

This was going to be a silly-fun essay, a little light relief from the heavy stuff I was ruminating on last month. And then Julie Harris died. I don't mean that the event instantly plunged m…

Thinking About Theater: The Critic, the Worker, and the Business Model (Part II) by Michael Feingold

This is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. The implicit belief, on the management side of today's giant corporations, that the…

Thinking About Theater: The Critic, the Worker, and the Business Model by Michael Feingold

Lately, ominous signs suggest that "theater critic" may be disappearing as a job description. My own dismissal as a staff writer for The Village Voice at the end of May was framed on either …

Thinking About Theater: An Old Way to Play New Texts (Part II) by Michael Feingold

This is part II of Michael Feingold's latest "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. The recent revival of Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord supplies useful leverage for …

Thinking About Theater: An Old Way to Play New Texts by Michael Feingold

Along with the usual stream of new works, June brought New York a quartet of old plays, ranging from the unfamiliar to the utterly unknown. Three came from our loyal resurrectionist institut…

Thinking About Theater: Of Playwrights and Complainers (Part II) by Michael Feingold

This is part II of Michael Feingold's first "Thinking About Theater" column. Click here to read part I. Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, which opened at Playwrights Horizons back in Decembe…

Thinking About Theater: Of Playwrights and Complainers by Michael Feingold

This is the start of a new voyage for me, and the charts for this area of the ocean are somewhat vague, so my route may be a little meandering. I hope my fellow travelers will bear with me. …

Painting Churches: Canvasing the Family - Village Voice by Michael Feingold

Howe's delightful, disturbing, and ultimately moving 1983 play